ostracism; a type of extra-judicial social exclusion practiced in Japan where a villager disturbing the peace of a village is shunned by the rest of them

Yanba (a koaza in Kawarahata, Naganohara, Agatsuma district, Gunma Prefecture, Japan)

year-round

the 1900's

a Chinese red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans)

an anthology of one hundred poems by one hundred poets, one poet for each poem

short for 小倉百人一首 (Ogura Hyakunin Isshu): a famous "one hundred poems anthology", used as the basis of certain card games

210th day of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar; “storm day”

one of the three sacred treasures comprising the Imperial Regalia of Japan

(astronomy) the Twenty-Eight Mansions