origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
foot of a mountain; base of a mountain; mine; colliery; owner of a mountain; operator of a mine
headquarters (on the battlefield); direct retainer of a shogun (Edo period); shogunal vassal; hatamoto
base (of a plant, tree, pillar, etc.); (part near the) root; roots (of one's hair); root (e.g. of a problem); source
Kumamoto (city, prefecture)
root; origin; source; Ōmoto (religion)
brewery (sake, soy); brewer; (arch.) warehouse overseer
Kumamoto Prefecture (Kyūshū)
to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin
Ōmoto (religious sect founded in 1892 as an offshoot of Shinto)
hatamoto-yakko; samurai bandits, organized into gangs, who wore flamboyant clothing and engaged in violent and antisocial behaviour (Edo period)
fruit grown near the root
wholesaler; manufacturer; capitalist; financier; investor
originally; from the start; from the beginning; none the worse (for); (coming out) even; in the same position (as before)
host of a kōdō ceremony; person who burns the incense
trunk leaves; leaves near the base of a stem
losing everything; suffering a total loss; coming to nothing; (lit.) having lost the interest and the principal
of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse
Kumamoto Prefectural Police (abbr)
Kumamoto Women's University
Prefectural University of Kumamoto
Matsumoto sarin gas attack (June 27-28, 1994)
Kumamoto Gakuen University
Kumamoto Institute of Technology
Kumamoto University of Commerce
Matsumoto Dental University
all returns to dust; (lit.) the fruit of the tree falls to the roots
Kumamoto Health Science University
Hashimoto's disease; Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Yoshimoto New Star Creation (comedy school established by Yoshimoto Kogyo); Yoshimoto Academy; NSC
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
Matsumoto Special Needs School (older name style)
Kumamoto Industrial Research Center
Japan; Land of the Rising Sun
the Tokugawa shogunate's eighty thousand guards (comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals)
Motoyama Station (Nagoya)
Hashimoto Station (Kanagawa)
Okamoto Station (Tochigi)