沖 - open sea, offing, rise high into sky

open sea

Okinawa (city, prefecture)

off the coast; offshore; out at sea

Okinawan language; Okinawan dialect

coming to Okinawa; visit to Okinawa

longshoreman; stevedore

alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

alluvial soil

rising into the heavens

Okinawa Prefecture

false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)

small fish sliced open and pickled in a mixture of vinegar, sake, and salt