Kiso valley section of the Nakasendo
Kumaso (ancient Japanese people who lived in southern Kyushu); Kumaso (former province located in present-day Miyazaki Prefecture)
Kiso horse (Japanese indigenous horse breed); kisouma
Soga Monogatari (war chronicle)
incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from India)
Veitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii)
Maries' fir (Abies mariesii)
cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)