(before a) Buddhist altar; before the Buddha; offering placed on a Buddhist altar; incense money; condolatory offering
reading aloud; recitation; intoning
name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense
to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift); to add to as support; to prop up; to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.); (arch.) to mimic
omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
deceased father; late father
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
departure; departing (from ...); sending; sent (by ...); engine; counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.
foolish thing; stupid thing; absurdity
to put into written form; to communicate or express by writing; to chronicle
ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down
account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters
style; way; shape; form; appearance; state
repaying a favor; repaying a favour
that is to say; so that means
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
feminine handwriting; woman's hand
worship (esp. Christian); adoration; divine service; worship (esp. Buddhist and Shinto)
indicates uncertainty or second hand nature of information quoted
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
to fix (a time, date, etc.); to set; to expect; to hope for; to resolve (to do); to decide upon
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
sutras; Buddhist literature
Apocrypha (i.e. as opposed to the Biblical canon); non-Buddhist writings (esp. Confucian writings)
arm; skill; efforts; ability
wisdom; wit; sagacity; prajna (insight leading to enlightenment)
proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim
address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; ci (Chinese literary form); ancillary word
to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause
winding; meandering; wriggling; wiggling; waving; swaying
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
to recite; to chant; to cry; to yell; to advocate; to advance
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again