黄泉

こうせん よみ

underground spring

黄泉路

よみじ

road to Hades

硫黄泉

いおうせん いおういずみ

sulfur spring, sulphur spring

黄泉国

よもつくに

hades, realm of the dead, the next world

竈

くど かまど

the rear of an old-fashioned Japanese hearth from which smoke was exhausted, (in Kyoto dialect) the hearth itself

黄泉帰る

よみがえる

to be resurrected, to be resuscitated, to be rehabilitated, to be revived

黄泉の国

よみのくに

hades, realm of the dead, the next world

黄泉戸喫

よもつへぐい

eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld)

七竈

ななかまど ナナカマド

Japanese rowan (Sorbus commixta)

竈神

かまどがみ かまどしん

tutelary deities of the hearth

黄泉比良坂

よもつひらさか

Yomotsu Hirasaka (slope that leads to the land of the dead)

土竈炭

どがまずみ

charcoal burned in an earthen kiln

西洋七竈

せいようななかまど

rowan (Sorbus aucuparia); mountain-ash

四葉塩竈

よつばしおがま ヨツバシオガマ

Chamisso's lousewort (Pedicularis chamissonis var. japonica)

南京七竈

ナンキンななかまど ナンキンナナカマド

Sorbus gracilis (species of mountain ash)

高嶺七竈

たかねななかまど タカネナナカマド

Siberian mountain ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)

御竈蟋蟀

おかまこおろぎ

camel cricket (Diestrammena apicalis); camelback cricket; cave cricket; spider cricket

黄

き

yellow

黄花黄耆

きばなおうぎ

membranous milk-vetch (Astragalus membranaceus)