noun:

• the study or science of religion; religious studies

noun:

• souvenir from the mountains

noun:

• the eight gods who preside over the lucky/unlucky directions of the koyomi for each year

noun:

• Order of the Precious Crown, Butterfly

noun:

• catarrh of the pulmonary apex; pulmonary apicitis; inflammation of the mucous of the upper lung - Medicine term

noun:

• burning off the fields

noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• standing comparison with; comparing favorably with; no means inferior to; equal to

noun:

• women in the sciences; female scientists ➜ 理系女

expression / noun:

• in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances

noun:

• taking the family along

noun:

• purse with a metal clasp; handbag (with clasp); pouch (with clasp); coin purse (with clasp) - etym: toad's mouth ➜ 財布

noun:

• people close to the head man

noun / ~する noun:

• tour round the country (Japan) (visiting from province to province) - four character idiom

noun:

• costume for women serving in the inner palace (Heian period) - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• the moon; lunar

noun:

• the War On Terror

noun:

• the whole world

adverb / noun:

• in all ages; since antiquity - four character idiom

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• woman who is popular with men

noun:

• being the only loser; losing by oneself

noun:

• playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧

noun / ~する noun:

• spreading the legs (wide apart); opening the legs Antonym: 閉脚【へいきゃく】

noun:

• posture in which the legs are firmly planted (in sumo and judo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term