(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
elderly woman; noh mask of an old woman
wet nurse; nursing mother
pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course
Hyūga (former province located in present-day Miyazaki Prefecture); Hyūga (city)
sly; cunning; sneaky; miserly; mean; stingy
landlocked masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou masou)
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
insincerity; dishonesty; untruthfulness; bad faith
Rikuzen (former province located in parts of present-day Miyagi and Iwate prefectures)
slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
to be hit; to strike; to touch; to be in contact; to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)
latter period; second half; late stage; third trimester; second semester
Ashikaga period (i.e. the Muromachi period, 1333-1573 CE)
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
right; correct; proper; righteous; just
the same; the said; likewise
take the opportunity to (do something else)
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
reality; real state of affairs; true state of affairs; true form of all things as they are; ultimate reality
three generations; third generation immigrant; sansei; the third (e.g. Henry III)
peach grove; peach garden; peach orchard
monk; priest, particularly a high-ranking Zen monk honored by the imperial court
gradually; slowly; little by little; incrementally
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
remaining; left-over; excess
autumn breeze; fall breeze
a person of high morals; a Taoist