kokoshka

Japanese: kokoshka
kokoshka

…It is sometimes written as Rosiya. In kanji, it was written as Russia from the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji era, and from the mid-Meiji era onwards, it was written as Rosiya. During the Soviet era, the name of the country was only that of the Russian Federative Socialist Republic, which was a component part of the Soviet Union, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this republic came to use the Russian Federation (or Russia) as its official name. The territory of the Russian Empire, which was the name of the country before the 1917 revolution, included almost all of the territory of the former Soviet Union, as well as Poland and Finland. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "kokoshka" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ロシヤと表記することもある。漢字では江戸時代から明治初年まで魯西亜,明治中期以後は露西亜の文字をあてる。ソ連時代には,国名としてはソ連邦の一構成要素であるロシア連邦社会主義共和国にその名をとどめていたにすぎないが,ソ連邦崩壊後はこの共和国がロシア連邦(あるいはロシア)を正称とするに至った。1917年の革命以前の国名であるロシア帝国の領域には旧ソ連のほとんどすべての領土のほかに,ポーランドとフィンランドが含まれていた。…

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