noun:

• central black dot on a go board
• Tengen era (978.11.29-983.4.15)

noun:

• object representative of a divine spirit; object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned; object or animal occupied by a kami ➜ 形代

noun:

• staff at a horse changing station during the ritsuryo period - archaism

noun:

• central pillar (of a building)
• mainstay (e.g. of an economy); backbone (e.g. of a family); provider; main man

noun:

• young boy or girl being trained as a geisha or as a kabuki actor

noun:

• visitor (to a shop or restaurant); customer (visiting a store or restaurant); patron

noun:

• jar; pot; vase
• dice cup
• depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall)
• target (when aiming an arrow) - archaism
• (figurative) bull's-eye - usually written using kana alone ➜ 思うつぼ
• key point (of a conversation, etc.) - usually written using kana alone
• acupuncture point; moxibustion point - usually written using kana alone
• nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.) - often ツボ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• make-or-break game in a go or shogi tournament
• ozeki-ranked wrestler being in danger of losing his rank if he fails to win 8 or more bouts in a 15-day tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• no food or drink (e.g. as a sign in a library, etc.); no eating or drinking

noun:

• central pillar of a pagoda; shinbashira
• leader of the Tenri religion ［真柱］

noun:

• establishing something (e.g. a company or a religious order) by oneself; company or religious order founded in such a way - obscure term

noun:

• corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)

noun:

• title of a scripture or sacred text (e.g. Buddhist sutra)
• title on a scroll or rolled book ➜ 巻き物【まきもの】

noun:

• index fossil (fossil which suggests a date of the formation of a rock stratum); key fossil; leading fossil

noun:

• flurry of snow in a clear sky
• winter wind which brings scattered snowflakes or raindrops
• skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever ➜ 風ほろし

noun:

• admission ticket; entrance ticket
• platform ticket; ticket allowing a non-traveller access to a railway station platform

noun:

• pleasures of a pious life - Buddhism term
• entertainment for or dedicated to a deity or Buddha
• pastime; entertainment; amusement; pleasure
• free admission

noun:

• in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

noun:

• echo; reverberation
• sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise
• quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read

noun:

• stroll garden with a central pond; large garden best enjoyed by walking around it ➜ 座観式庭園・池泉回遊式

noun:

• position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); open interest; outstanding account; sales or purchase contract

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物

noun:

• before a Buddha or a mortuary tablet ➜ 仏前
• offerings made to Buddha or placed on a mortuary tablet

noun / ~する noun:

• advance (into a new market or stage of progress); launching (a new career or venture); expanding (into a new market); stepping forward; emerging

noun:

• a service station for cars that run on alternative fuels