Japanese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of なんぶ – see the following entry.
南部
[noun] southern part, southern area
[proper noun] a surname
[proper noun] A region in northern 岩手県 (Iwate prefecture) and eastern 青森県 (Aomori prefecture). Former fiefdom of the Nanbu daimyō family.
(This term, なんぶ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)