Aki (former province located in the west of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture)
 mound on which targets are placed (in archery);  firing mound
 Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
 Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600)
 large warship of the Muromachi and early Edo periods
 Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600)
 abekawa mochi;  rice cake with kinako
 Azuchi period (first half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1582)
 Bostrycapulus gravispinosus (species of spiny slipper snail)
 Azumi shrew (Sorex hosonoi)
 Akitakata City (Hiroshima)