village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
returning home; visiting one's parents; new bride's first visit to parents
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
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry
undeveloped woodland near populated area; settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes
to reveal one's (poor) upbringing (through poor manners, etc.); to betray one's origin; to give oneself away
imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period)
kagura performance held somewhere other than the imperial palace
returning to one's parents' house to give birth; giving birth at one's parents' home
mountain villages and neighbouring agricultural, forest, etc. areas
non-legal public road (sometimes no longer physically existing)
adoption event for homeless animals; foster parents association
rural community development; rural community activation
mountain village (region)
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
putting the cart before the horse
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)
pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing
snow that falls on villages
Araceae (arum family of plants)