黄泉

こうせん よみ

underground spring

黄金比

おうごんひ

golden ratio (approx. 1.6180339887)

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

比良八荒

ひらはっこう

cold wind blowing at Lake Biwa around the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

比良八講

ひらはっこう

Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

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)

比良おろし

ひらおろし

strong local wind blowing around the Hira mountains in Shiga prefecture (sinks boats on the lake and stops trains of the Kosei Line)

黄泉竈食ひ

よもつへぐい

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

坂

さか

slope, hill

急坂

きゅうはん きゅうさか

steep slope, steep gradient

登坂

とうはん とはん とさか

climbing a slope (hill), ascending a hill

女坂

おんなざか

the easier of two slopes

男坂

おとこざか

steeper of two hills

坂路

はんろ

ramp, slope

下坂

しもさか

downhill, decline, waning