home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
one's parents' home; one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
taro (Colocasia esculenta); dasheen; eddo
imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period)
undeveloped woodland near populated area; settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes
kagura performance held somewhere other than the imperial palace
countryside dialect; sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period
foster parent; foster parents; (pet) caretaker
non-legal public road (sometimes no longer physically existing)
rural community development; rural community activation
a man among the geese when the gander is away; a one-eyed king in the land of the blind; (lit.) a bat in a village without birds
pet dog; domesticated dog
mountain village (region)
putting the cart before the horse
pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing
snow that falls on villages