hometown; 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
satoyama; rural landscape coexisting with local agricultural communities
returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay); bride's first visit to her parents after getting married; coming back (of an item; after having been on loan, etc. abroad); (arch.) temporarily returning to one's home (of a servant)
foster parent; foster parents; (pet) caretaker
one's wife's family; bride's family
kagura performance held somewhere other than the imperial palace
imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period)
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king; (lit.) a bat in a village without birds
non-legal public road (sometimes no longer physically existing)
rural community development; rural community activation
pet dog; domesticated dog
mountain village (region)
putting the cart before the horse
countryside dialect; sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period
pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing
snow that falls on villages
protected undeveloped coastline near populated areas; section of ocean that coexists with a nearby populated area