noun:

• study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation)
• English literature; British studies

noun:

• thin strip of bamboo ➜ 籤【ひご】

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

noun:

• world of spirits; hell

noun:

• great debt of gratitude; great obligation

noun:

• back of a chair

noun:

• fragrant branch of flowers

noun:

• inspection of personal belongings (e.g. before entering a venue)

noun:

• number of days; period of days ➜ 日数【にっすう】
• daily interest rate

noun:

• surface of a wound

adjective:

• smelling of milk; green; wet behind the ears; immature

noun:

• endless circle of transmigration in the six posthumous worlds - four character idiom

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox) - obscure term ➜ 宇賀神

noun:

• defect of memory

noun:

• study of religious doctrine ➜ 神学

noun:

• grains of sand on the beach (i.e. something countless) - archaism

noun:

• seal over the edges of adjacent sheets

noun / ~する noun:

• recovery from an illness

noun:

• reverence for the emperor and the overthrow of the shogunate

noun:

• degree of penetration; penetrance

noun:

• dyeing of degummed silk; dyeing of raw silk at the same time as degumming

noun:

• Master of Engineering

noun / ~する noun:

• the end of the match; the end of the game

noun:

• ceremony of allowing the hair to grow at age three

noun:

• way of thinking; one's perspective