rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武侠); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc.; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld

Edo (old name of Tokyo)

rivers and mountains; landscape; country; state power

region of China immediately south of the lower Yangtze River, including Shanghai and adjoining parts of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang

Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang

river water

Yangtze and Yellow rivers

Han River