Japanese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of いばらき – see the following entries.
茨城
[proper noun] Ibaraki (a prefecture in north-eastern Honshu, Japan)
[proper noun] ancient place name of Hitachi (常陸)
茨木
[proper noun] Ibaraki (a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
[proper noun] a surname
(This term, いばらき, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)