noun:

• long-handled Chinese spear bearing a small flag - Buddhism term ➜ 鉾
• banner; hanging ［どう］

noun:

• person who judges which god or spirit has taken possession of a miko - archaism - obscure term - Shintō term

noun:

• patch of plants or shrubs (e.g. on a steep rocky surface)

expression:

• waking or sleeping; constantly; at all times; twenty-four hours a day

expression:

• nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb

expression:

• appearances can be deceiving; don't judge a book by its cover - proverb

expression / adjective:

• very messy (of a floor); no space even for one's feet [literal] - idiom

prefix:

• greater (of equal court ranks); upper; senior - also written as 正 - archaism ➜ 従【ひろい】

noun / adjectival noun:

• a great deal; very much ➜ 大いなる・大いに

noun:

• ornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite) ➜ 書院造り

noun:

• choir singing from music - From English "choral reading"
• reading aloud in a group

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• Akhal-Teke, a breed of horses originating in Turkmenistan

noun:

• square framing (in a house, temple, screen, etc.)

noun:

• knit top with a loose turtleneck or cowl neck - From English "French turtle" ➜ オフタートル

noun:

• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)

noun:

• intricately inscribed ancient bronze or iron mirror featuring a pair of firebirds - obscure term ➜ 鳳凰

adverb:

• gradually; by degrees - obscure term ➜ 段々・漸次
• the sight of a tall soaring rock - obscure term
• crying; weeping - obscure term

noun:

• leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group

noun:

• female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow ➜ 巫女【みこ】・口寄せ

noun:

• pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or temple

noun:

• monkey (esp. a gibbon)
• hand of the puppeteer (puppet theatre) ➜ 人形浄瑠璃
• menstrual period - slang
• kappa ➜ 河童

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun:

• outermost enclosure of a castle or fortress (including the town around it)

noun:

• Chinese name for a high government office (ritsuryo period)
• alias; pseudonym ［からな］ - archaism