unprecedented; unheard-of; record-breaking
great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad
great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)
great-grandmother; great-grandma
Kiso valley section of the Nakasendo
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
Kiso horse (Japanese indigenous horse breed); kisouma
Soga Monogatari (war chronicle)
Kumaso (ancient Japanese people who lived in southern Kyushu); Kumaso (former province located in present-day Miyazaki Prefecture)
incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from India)
Veitch's silver fir (Abies veitchii)
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)
Maries' fir (Abies mariesii)