noun:

• ancestor's meritorious deeds; the evil effects of the lives of our predecessors

noun:

• law; rule; commandment
• the Torah (the law of God as revealed to Moses) ➜ モーセ五書

noun:

• unpadded kimono
• 1st day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar ［綿抜き］ - also written as 四月朔日 ➜ 綿抜の朔日

noun:

• Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star - obscure term - Astronomy term ➜ ポラリス

noun / ~する noun:

• evacuating to the homes of one's relatives in the countryside in wartime

noun:

• remedial measure; preventive measure; the best way to cope with (meet) the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• remedial measure; preventive measure; the best way to cope with (meet) the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• remedial measure; preventive measure; the best way to cope with (meet) the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• 'ra'-removed word (i.e. lacking the 'ra' in the 'rareru' verb conjunction)

noun:

• governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines

expression:

• what I want to say is ...; the fact of the matter is ...

conjunction:

• because; the reason being - archaism
• while; during

adverb:

• to the extent that; more and more ➜ 程

noun:

• rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity) ➜ 本社

noun:

• rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity) ➜ 奥社

noun:

• tarsus (group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

noun:

• Ogosho period (between the Kansei Reforms and the Tempo Reforms, approx. 1787-1843)

noun:

• the five skandhas (the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness) - Buddhism term

noun:

• pit; hole - archaism
• kan (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: water, north)

noun:

• assistant director (second highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 四等官

noun:

• the five skandhas (the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness) - archaism - Buddhism term ➜ 五蘊

noun:

• sanpaku eyes (eyes with visible white between the iris and the lower eyelid)

noun:

• spring sludge; spring mud (caused by the melting of the snow); (muddy) slush

noun:

• consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 阿闍梨

noun:

• General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ

noun:

• work hakama that are loose at the top and tight at the bottom