NounYezo spruce (Picea jezoensis); Jezo spruce

NounChina aster (Callistephus chinensis); Chinese aster; annual aster

NounHokkaido wolf (Canis lupus hattai, extinct)

NounHokkaido brown bear (Ursus arctos yesoensis)

NounYezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) · Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido