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
the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street"); street; district; location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)
Gifu prefecture (Chūbu area)
to be wide-ranging; to be diverse; to cover a lot of ground; to cover various topics
digression; many divergences
Oki (former province located on Oki Island in present-day Shimane Prefecture); Oki (island)
Sanuki (former province located in present-day Kagawa Prefecture)
Iki (former province located on Iki Island in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture); Iki (island)
branch road; branch path; fork road
eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)
Sanuki udon; thick udon from Kagawa prefecture
complex and wide-ranging; labyrinthine
Izanagi; male deity who fathered Japan and the sun, moon, and storm gods
eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)
wide-ranging and diverse; multifarious
too many options making selection difficult; truth being hard to find as paths to it proliferate
branch road; byroad; side street; digression
Sanuki udon; thick udon from Kagawa prefecture
non-local jump; non-local branch
representative of Gifu and Mie prefectures
extensive and wide-ranging
procedure branching statement
conditional branch instruction
Sanuki accent, used in northern Shikoku
scholarship and swordsmanship are one and the same; the literary and the military are the same path