地

billeting area; cantonment; encampment; étape

commercial district

cultivated land

Colloquial; Abbreviation

basement of a department store (where foodstuffs are usually sold)

one's land; one's estate; domain; demesne

reclaimed land; cleared land; area opened for development

barren land; sterile soil; wasteland

field survey; field work (research); on-the-spot investigation

local time

neutral zone

demilitarized zone

creation (of the universe); the Creation

another world

Buddhism

the Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells); hell of uninterrupted suffering

producing area

building lot; residential land

Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane)

Proverb

adversity strengthens the foundations; after a storm comes a calm; what doesn't kill you makes you stronger; the ground hardens after it rains

savage (barbaric) land; backward region; undeveloped area

Familiar; Buddhism

Jizo (esp. statue); Kshitigarbha; Ksitigarbha

blue cloth; blue ground; blue background

detached territory; enclave; exclave

scattered landholdings

grain (of wood)

unlacquered woodwork; plain wood

roughly cut wood for carving or lathing

upmarket residential district; rich neighborhood

the same place; that place