village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
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 child; adopted animal (e.g. pet)
foster parent; foster parents; (pet) caretaker
taro (Colocasia esculenta); dasheen; eddo
one's parents' home; one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
villager; village folk; countryfolk
hometown; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry
satoyama; rural landscape coexisting with local agricultural communities
to reveal one's (poor) upbringing (through poor manners, etc.); to betray one's origin; to give oneself away
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)
returning to one's parents' house to give birth; giving birth at one's parents' home
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)
mountain villages and neighbouring agricultural, forest, etc. areas
adoption event for homeless animals; foster parents association
rural community development; rural community activation
mountain village (region)
pet dog; domesticated dog
putting the cart before the horse
Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (1814-42; novel in 106 volumes by Kyokutei Bakin); Eight Dog Chronicles; Tale of Eight Dogs; Biographies of Eight Dogs
countryside dialect; sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period
exhibition of returned works (e.g. from overseas)
protected undeveloped coastline near populated areas; section of ocean that coexists with a nearby populated area
pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing
snow that falls on villages
Araceae (arum family of plants)