Habu Port
- Name
- (Habu-kō)
- Region
- Wano Country
- First seen
- Ch. 958
- Name meaning
- 波浮港 (Habu-kō, 'Habu Port') — a direct lift of the real **Habuminato / Habu Port (波浮港)**, a small historic harbour on the southeast coast of **Izu Ōshima** (an island of Tokyo Prefecture). The real port, built ~200 years ago in a flooded volcanic crater, is famous as a setting tied to Kawabata Yasunari's *The Dancing Girl of Izu* (伊豆の踊子) and the 1928 folk song *Habu no Minato* (波浮の港) — a deeply cultural Japanese port name, of a piece with Wano's all-Japan toponymy. A secondary in-story pun layer reinforces it: ハブ (*habu*) is the venomous Ryukyu pit-viper, and a **habu snake** appears in the Kozuki rebellion's coded meeting-symbol unveiled in this same chapter (p. 5) — the snake (波布 habu) and the place (波浮 Habu) are homophones, fitting Oda's Wano fauna/folklore naming.
Wano Country · named, not shown · first mentioned: Ch. 921
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A port in Wano named on-page Ch. 921 (p. 5) as the rendezvous for the Kozuki uprising — allies are to gather there at the “twilight second hour of the bird” on the day of the Fire Festival, per the flyers Kin’emon distributes. First shown Ch. 958.
Appearances
Etymology
Etymology done . 波浮港 (Habu-kō) is a direct lift of the real Habuminato / Habu Port on Izu Ōshima (Tokyo) — a ~200-year-old harbour famous from Kawabata’s The Dancing Girl of Izu and the folk song Habu no Minato, a deeply cultural Japanese port name fitting Wano’s all-Japan toponymy. Secondary pun: ハブ (habu) = the Ryukyu pit-viper, the habu snake in the rebellion’s coded symbol shown this same chapter (p. 5) — snake (波布) and place (波浮) are homophones. See frontmatter etymology.
Key chapters
- Ch. 921 — first mention: the Kozuki-uprising rendezvous on the Fire-Festival day (named, not shown).
- Ch. 955 — rendezvous switched away: the uprising’s gathering point is moved from Habu Port to Tokage Port (p. 16). An enemy informant has nonetheless obtained the switch — “a switch from Habu Port to Tokage Port!!” — along with word that Kozuki Hiyori is alive.
- Ch. 958 — first appearance: shown as “the largest port in Wano” in Hakumai, from which Shogun Orochi’s procession departs for Onigashima (pp. 5-6).
Cross-links
- Region: Wano Country
- Events here: the planned Kozuki-uprising muster (Fire Festival)
- Mysteries set here: The Crescent-Moon Ankle Mark Identifies The Kozuki Revenge Allies