a. and sb. Obs. [f. Japon, JAPAN.]
A. adj. Of or relating to Japan; Japanese.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 526. A Iaponian King had erected three thousand … Temples, with houses adjoyned for the Bonzii.
1738. [G. Smith], Curious Relations, II. 278. After his death the Japonian Army withdrew from Coria.
B. sb. A native of Japan.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., III. 857. The Iaponians being furnished with brazen ordinance.
1627. trans. Bacon’s Life & Death (1651), 21. The Japonians are longer-liv’d than the Chineses.
1679. [C. Cotton], The Confinement: a Poem, 32.
| His Neighbours slight him, and there’s not a Man, | |
| But looks as strange, as a Iaponian. |
So † Japonite sb., a Japanese.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 525. Between him and the King of China hapned warres about the Kingdome of Coray, which the Iaponites left upon his death.
