noun:

• family clan based on the paternal line, sharing the same tomb and performing rituals together (Okinawa)

noun:

• seat wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• empress dowager

noun:

• corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 中門・寝殿造り

noun:

• (head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)

noun:

• tiles matching one's seat wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 門風

noun:

• pupil; student; follower

noun:

• style or construction of a gate; gate-equipped (house, shop, etc.) ［もんがまえ］
• kanji "gate" radical (radical 169) - as in 閭

noun:

• gatekeeper; doorman; porter

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

noun:

• a pass allowing one through a gate

noun:

• doorplate; nameplate; gate pass

noun:

• departure mushroom - obscure term

expression:

• barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house ➜ 御門違い

noun:

• Chancellery (Tang-dynasty China) ➜ 三省【さんしょう】

noun:

• pharmacy right outside a doctor's office or hospital

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)

noun:

• having a constant stream of visitors; being thronged with callers - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to knock at the gate
• to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil

noun:

• one's hand being completely concealed; not having called any tiles - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• head priest of temple formerly led by founder of sect

noun:

• one's hand being completely concealed; not having called any tiles - abbreviation - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 門前清

noun:

• winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (yaku); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 門前清・役【やく】

noun:

• song sung door-to-door - archaism ➜ 門付

expression:

• you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught) [literal] - proverb - abbreviation ➜ 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む【もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ】