noun:

• oil-based clay (for modelling, sculpting, etc.)

noun:

• bare ground revealed by melting snow

noun:

• acid soil ➜ 酸性土壌

expression:

• this impure world (as opposed to the pure land) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土
• feces; faeces - archaism

noun:

• China

noun:

• Hades; the underworld; the other world; realm of the dead - Buddhism term

noun:

• white clay; white earth; kaolin; mortar ➜ カオリン

expression:

• coal; peat - archaism

noun:

• the whole nation

noun:

• this painful world; magnesia

noun:

• kaolin; potter's clay

noun:

• earth taken from elsewhere and placed atop

noun:

• earth cut; cutting ➜ 切り取り【きりとり】

noun:

• laterite ➜ ラテライト

noun:

• subsoil

noun:

• seeking rebirth in the Pure Land - four character idiom

noun:

• fault gouge; fault clay

noun:

• remote region

noun:

• rural areas

noun:

• poor soil; poor country

noun:

• mound on which targets are placed (in archery); firing mound

noun:

• plaster; wall clay; wall mud

noun:

• the spiritual climate - four character idiom

noun:

• permafrost

noun:

• an inch of land