reaching; attaining; arrival
to take more time than expected; to take a long time; to be delayed
avatamsa (flower adornment, as a metaphor for becoming a buddha); Avatamska sutra; Kegon (sect of Buddhism)
novel; original; new; innovative
to exile; to banish; to revise the wording of a phrase
Southern School (of Chinese painting)
blank space (in documents); vacuum; blank; void
to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud
cultural assets; cultural property
blistering heat; "major heat" solar term (approx. July 23)
the Empress, the Empress Dowager and the Grand Empress Dowager; emperor's second consort; empress; palace of the empress; building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground; demesne of the imperial palace
Maitreya (Bodhisattva); Miroku
Europeans and Americans; Westerners
notice; attention; observation
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
being orientated (towards); pointing (towards); directional (e.g. microphone); -oriented
agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance
rationality; reasonableness
to name; to call; to christen; to term
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
to start working; to take action
gloomy; dismal; miserable; spirit of yin
rearing; training; nurture; cultivation; promotion
whole nation; entire nation; all the people
this and that; this or that; one thing or another; around; about; round about
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
king and princes; noble rank
Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435-1490)
first Sanskrit alphabet letter; Africa; Awa (old province of Japan); (arch.) prefixed to names to show intimacy
more and more; increasingly; extremely; very