Kano Kingdom
- Region
- New World
- Name meaning
- 花ノ国 (Kano Kuni) = 'Flower Country / Land of Flowers' (花 ka = flower) — VIZ 'Kano Kingdom,' also styled 'Kano, the Flower Kingdom.' A China-modelled nation (Chinese-style architecture, tall rock spires); the deliberate sister of Wano Country (和ノ国): the two names rhyme (Kano / Wano) and both '◯ノ国' nations are based on Asian countries (China / Japan).
Profile
“Kano, the flower kingdom” — home of the Chin Jao Family (Sai and Boo are “from Kano”). Named only at the Corrida Coliseum; not shown on-page this chapter .
Key chapters
- Ch. 704 — first named (home of the Chin Jao Family)
- Ch. 708 — re-named on-page (p. 8) as the homeland of Sai and Boo (“Sai and Boo from the Kingdom of Kano”); still not shown.
- Ch. 715 — named again (alias “Kano”) as a country “in the far east,” the homeland of the Happo Navy / Happosui Army gangsters Sai, Boo and Chin Jao (pp. 6–9); still not shown.
- Ch. 725 — reaffirmed as Sai’s homeland: he is captioned “Sai of Kano Kingdom” during the Corrida Colosseum “examination” (p. 15); still not shown.
- Ch. 726 — named again as a kingdom at war because of Doflamingo/Joker’s arms trade — “his weapons keep trickling into the enemy’s hands”; the King of Kano commissioned the Happo Navy to stem the smuggling (p. 7). Still not shown .
- Ch. 823 — captioned on-page “KANO KINGDOM, WEST BLUE” (p. 8) in the Reverie-prelude kingdom montage; its representatives, readying for the Reverie (“It seems we will make the Reverie in time”), note that “Don Chinjao… I mean, Sai, has not yet returned” now that the war is over. The kingdom itself is still not depicted .