(obsolete) a young woman

a one of common word problem in Japan. It says that There cranes and turtles. The count of heads is X and count of legs is Y. How many cranes and turtles are there respectively?

death / (law, historical) one of the five punishments under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system, the methods used are 絞 (kō, “strangling”) and 斬 (zan, “decapitation”)

山原水鶏: an Okinawa rail