里

Japanese league

1000 ri

foster child

thousands of miles

hometown

returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person)

alkali

foster parent

mountain hamlet

village

Paris (France)

milestone (1 ri apart)

2.44 miles

villager

large area

Kitasato University

wife's family

square ri

mountain village (region)

undeveloped woodland near populated area

potassium

homesickness

being far away across mountains and rivers

half a ri (distance measure)

sweeping view of the eye

a country being in a state of universal peace

village

village

village chief

to reveal one's (poor) upbringing (through poor manners, etc.)

jōri system of land subdivision in ancient Japan

protected undeveloped coastline near populated areas

nautical mile

countryside dialect

bad news traveling fast

a journey of a thousand miles feels like only one mile (when going to see the one you love)

adoption event for homeless animals

a bright (rosy) future awaiting one

Chollima

lonely (place)

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

hometown

returning to one's parents' house to give birth

bad news travels fast

administration of the Ryukyu Kingdom

mileage

imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period)

mountain villages and neighbouring agricultural, forest, etc. areas

non-legal public road (sometimes no longer physically existing)

don't count your chickens before they're hatched

mid-Edo period Imari ware

province-district-neighbourhood administrative divisions (ritsuryō system)

Great Wall of China

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (1870 novel by Jules Verne)

exhibition of returned works (e.g. from overseas)

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

kagura performance held somewhere other than the imperial palace

remote mountain village

chogori

mileage

remote mountain village

bad news travels quickly

thyme

Kurihama Reform School

the home of one's parents

red-light district

military expedition deep into enemy territory

putting the cart before the horse

township-neighbourhood system

rural community development

one's parents' home

pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter

Imari ware

totally at a loss

rotated grazing

Sanrizuka Struggle

milepost

Kirikirijin (1981 satirical novel by Inoue Hisashi)

language used in red-light districts during the Edo period

clairvoyance

vast stretch of desert

very far away

Senri Kinran University

village by the sea

red light district

Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (1814-42; novel in 106 volumes by Kyokutei Bakin)

one swift effort

pet dog

Madrid (Spain)

vast expanse of fertile land

any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry

snow that falls on villages

if you visit the toilet while traveling, you will fall behind your fellow travelers

(over) a great distance

verst

kanji "village" radical

hidden village (esp. hidden retreat for nobles or refuge for soldiers of a defeated army)

Kurihama Special Needs School (older name style)

limitless expanse of clouds and smoke

being poles apart

faraway lands

a parent will do anything for their child

Mauritius

Kiyosato Kitazawa Museum of Art

taro (Colocasia esculenta)

Alibaba

a large number of ships sailing in a long chain-like formation

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

Wanli Crab (brand name for crab caught in the Wanli district of Taiwan)