taro (Colocasia esculenta); dasheen; eddo
home town; birthplace; native place; one's old home
one's parents' home; one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
foster parent; foster parents; (pet) caretaker
undeveloped woodland near populated area; settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes
imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period)
kagura performance held somewhere other than the imperial palace
non-legal public road (sometimes no longer physically existing)
rural community development; rural community activation
countryside dialect; sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period
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