Crossword-Solution: TANEGASHIMA
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| Island S of Kyushu. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TANEGASHIMA (4)
When the Portuguese discovered Japan, in 1542, they introduced the musket to the Japanese, and the weapon was long known as Tanegashima, that being the name of the island where the Portuguese ship first touched.
Three of them, travelling by junk from Spain to Macao, were driven from their course and landed at Tanegashima, a small island off the south of Kyushu.
Pinto came with two companions to the island of Tanegashima in 1542, and, as might be expected, they were great curiosities.
While he speaks at random, Meppo Yahachi, Tanegashima no Roku, and Tanuki no Kakubei, three hunters of the neighbourhood, come in without ceremony, bearing on a shutter Yoichibei’s body, covered over with a straw rain-coat.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1945).