夷 - barbarian, savage, Ainu

Emishi; Ezo; non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan

controlling foreigners by foreigners; playing one barbarian state against another

Hokkaido wolf (Canis lupus hattai, extinct)

barbarian; savage

crude warrior from the eastern parts of Japan; wild man

the barbarians beyond the borders of old China

wedgeleaf primrose (Primula cuneifolia); pixie-eye primrose

sargent cherry (Prunus sargentii)

Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

Pteromys volans orii (subspecies of the Siberian flying squirrel, endemic to Hokkaido)

Japanese sable (subspecies of sable native to Hokkaido, Martes zibellina brachyura)

controlling foreigners by foreigners; playing one barbarian state against another