Japanese

Particle

いは ‎(romaji iwa)

1. emphatic nominative case marker
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 3, poem 237)

     不敢雖謂 話礼ゝゝ常 詔許曽 志斐伊波奏 強話登言

2. pronominal; person or thing; one
   • 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #45)

     此_乎持_伊波稱_乎致_之、捨_伊波謗_乎招_都

See also

• いし (ishi)
• いも (imo)

References

• Kurano, Kenji (1936) Shoku Nihongi Senmyō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-300381-0
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (1999) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man'yōshū (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240001-8