the former provinces of Kōzuke and Echigo / Jōetsu (a city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan)

Alternative spelling of 臍 (“a navel; a protrusion; a tenon in a mortise and tenon carpentry join”)

子息: (honorific) son / 四足: four-footed / 四則: the four basic arithmetic operations / 四塞: / 紙燭, 脂燭: / 視束: optic tract

a bonfire of dried reeds