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)

竈神

かまどがみ かまどしん

tutelary deities of the hearth

七竈

ななかまど ナナカマド

Japanese rowan (Sorbus commixta)

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

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)

御竈蟋蟀

おかまこおろぎ

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

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)

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)

黄

き

yellow

黄花黄耆

きばなおうぎ

membranous milk-vetch (Astragalus membranaceus)