summer wisteria, Chinese indigo, Indigofera decora

Synonym of 庭園 (teien, “garden”)

Kyūjitai form of 恵庭

a small garden, narrow garden / (equestrianism) a narrow training ground for practicing the use of longswords on horseback / earthen floor of a farmhouse, where rice is threshed

a small garden, narrow garden

Alternative spelling of 接骨木

one-eyed goblin, a Japanese monster

A group of onmitsu, government-employed undercover agents, established by the 8th Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684–1751). Sometimes described as ninja.

“a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds