divergence; ramification; bifurcation; branching off
junction; crossroads; division point; parting of ways
to be wide-ranging; to be diverse; to cover a lot of ground; to cover various topics
Oki (former province located on Oki Island in present-day Shimane Prefecture); Oki (island)
digression; many divergences
Iki (former province located on Iki Island in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture); Iki (island)
Sanuki (former province located in present-day Kagawa Prefecture)
branch road; branch path; fork road
Sanuki udon; thick udon from Kagawa prefecture
complex and wide-ranging; labyrinthine
wide-ranging and diverse; multifarious
too many options making selection difficult; truth being hard to find as paths to it proliferate
procedure branching statement
non-local jump; non-local branch
conditional branch instruction
scholarship and swordsmanship are one and the same; the literary and the military are the same path
extensive and wide-ranging
Sanuki accent, used in northern Shikoku