a rope holding up branches of a tree to prevent breakage from heavy snow / the act of tying up branches to protect them from snow during winter

elimination of snow

snow sculpture

Seoraksan, Mt. Seorak (the highest mountain in the Taebaek mountain range in the Gangwon Province in eastern South Korea)

The hiragana syllable ご (go). Its equivalent in katakana is ゴ (go).

語: language / 棊, 棋, 碁: go (board game) / 期: a specific time; death (as in "one's time has come") / 伍: a military squad (usu. of five people); a group / 午: noon; midnight

五: five / 伍: financial form of 五

御: honorific prefix used before on'yomi nouns / 互: mutual

呉: Wu China

語: language of, -ese / 後: after