noun:

• building on the greater palace grounds used by the emperor for viewing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. ➜ 大内裏
• martial arts practice hall at Heian Shrine (est. in 1895 by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, now defunct)

noun:

• monk who attends to the principal image of a temple
• Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine

noun:

• monk who attends to the principal image of a temple - abbreviation ➜ 供奉僧
• Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine

noun:

• first-born imperial prince - archaism ➜ 一の御子
• most important provincial shrine

noun:

• name of a god
• name of a shrine

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to wheedle a person into doing something
• to carry a portable shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• return of the Emperor (from a visit)
• return of a shintai to its shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun:

• lay ancestral hall; hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners
• small shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• being in someone's service for the first time; participating for the first time
• visiting a shrine (or temple) for the first time

noun:

• first rank in the hierarchy of the government
• highest rank given to a shrine

noun:

• niche or alcove for an image
• (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard

noun:

• second-born imperial prince - archaism ➜ 一の宮
• second most important provincial shrine

noun:

• newly born imperial prince
• newly constructed (branch) shrine

noun / ~の noun:

• substance; real form
• main part; main unit; body (of a machine)

noun:

• this machine; this appliance

noun / ~の noun:

• object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)
• noumenon

noun:

• base price; pre-tax price - abbreviation ➜ 本体価格【ほんたいかかく】

noun:

• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)
• evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)

noun:

• temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty)
• name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.)

noun:

• public bathhouse
• building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple)

noun:

• list of names of the dead
• Book of Souls (in the Yasukuni Shrine)

noun:

• great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family) - archaism
• crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• the empress, the empress dowager and the grand empress dowager ➜ 三后
• emperor's second consort
• empress; palace of the empress
• building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground
• demesne of the imperial palace ➜ 皇居

noun:

• Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE) ［こうらい］ - abbreviation

noun / prefix noun:

• Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty)

noun:

• (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine ［狛］ ➜ 狛犬

noun:

• (our) company; (my) company - humble language
• small company
• small shrine

noun:

• soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
• term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
• guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there

noun:

• high-ranking noh actor ➜ 能太夫
• head of a school of noh performance
• high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period)
• jōruri narrator; manzai narrator ➜ 浄瑠璃・万歳【まんざい】
• female role actor in kabuki ➜ 女形
• low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine ➜ 御師
• lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) ［太夫］

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to wave; to shake; to swing
• to sprinkle; to throw (dice)
• to cast (actor); to allocate (work)
• to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump
• to abandon; to give up; to ruin
• to add kana indicating a reading of a word ➜ 振り仮名
• to slightly change headings; to change directions
• to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct
• to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine)
• to bring up a topic; to lead to a topic
• to replace; to substitute
• to set up a joke for somebody else