noun:

• space between two nodes (on bamboo, etc.) - archaism
• a short time

noun:

• kanji for "takara" (impressed on the obverse of a coin) ➜ 宝

expression:

• not sleeping a wink; wide awake all night
• without moving - colloquialism

noun:

• bowstring
• string (of a shamisen, etc.); stringed instrument ➜ 絃
• chord - Mathematics term
• hypotenuse - obscure term - Mathematics term ➜ 斜辺【しゃへん】

noun:

• seeking a venue (usu. for litigation) - From English "forum shopping"

noun:

• cere; skin at the base of a bird's beak

noun:

• original poster (of a web-forum thread); OP ➜ トピ

~の noun:

• best; most (valuable player); top (quality); grade A; ace; finest

pronoun:

• I, as a mere priest; this humble servant of Buddha

noun:

• flag (esp. originally a flagpole-topping streamer made of feathers)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• crisp (like a pickle); crunchy - onomatopoeia
• firm (musculature) - onomatopoeia
• stiff (shoulders, neck, etc.) - onomatopoeia

expression:

• no man can resist the lure of a woman - proverb

expression / ~と adverb:

• without making waves; softly; (like) a willow in the wind [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the thirty guardian deities (a different one for each day)

noun:

• words read by the priest in a Shinto purification rite

noun:

• drawstring; release cord
• lead (e.g. for a dog)

noun:

• act of visiting a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple

noun:

• period during which monks may go into a summer retreat - Buddhism term ➜ 夏安居

noun / ~する noun:

• flowing down (e.g. water in a river); downward flow

noun / ~する noun:

• entreaty; imploring; begging
• spoken portion of a song; oral recitation

noun:

• small window; fenestella; scuttle (type of hatch on a ship)

noun:

• alias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)

noun:

• bicycle escalator (slim conveyor belt beside a flight of stairs)

noun:

• seafood cooked in a way that preserves its original shape

noun:

• lantern hanging from the eaves of a temple or shrine ➜ 釣り灯籠