origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
foot of a mountain; base of a mountain; mine; colliery; owner of a mountain; operator of a mine
shogunal vassal; direct retainer of a shogun
Kumamoto (city, prefecture)
base (of a plant, tree, pillar, etc.); (part near the) root; roots (of one's hair); root (e.g. of a problem); source
brewery (sake, soy); brewer; (arch.) warehouse overseer
root; origin; source; Ōmoto (religion)
Kumamoto prefecture (Kyushu)
Ōmoto (religious sect founded in 1892 as an offshoot of Shinto)
to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin
originally; by nature; from the start
losing everything; coming to nothing; having lost the interest and the principal
trunk leaves; leaves near the base of a stem
fruit grown near the root
Matsumoto sarin gas attack (June 27-28, 1994)
all returns to dust; (lit.) the fruit of the tree falls to the roots
Hashimoto's disease; Hashimoto's thyroiditis
of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse
the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals
Motoyama Station (Nagoya)
Okamoto Station (Tochigi)
Hashimoto Station (Kanagawa)