Japanese

Adjectival noun

異様 ‎(-na inflection, hiragana いよう, romaji iyō)

1. strange, peculiar, outlandish

   異様 (いよう)な格好 (かっこう)

   iyō na kakkō

   peculiar appearance

   • 1870, “第五部　江戸―外城の東部村近 第二十五章町人街 [Part 5: Edo – Villages near the eastern part of Sotoshiro. Chapter 25 – Commoner's district]”, in 新異国叢書 [New Foreign Publications], volume 15, page 111:

     日本の方々の湾で採れる亀や貽貝、不格好な蛸や異様な甲殻類などである。　[In various of Japan's bays are collected turtles and mussels, misshapen octopus and bizarre crustaceans, and the like.]