indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
Susanoo-no-Mikoto (deity, younger brother to Amaterasu)
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. (name of a publishing company)
Susanoo (deity, younger brother to Amaterasu); Susanoo-no-Mikoto
god of food (esp. of rice)
got it; roger; leave it to me
Amenominakanushi (first god and the source of the universe according to Shinto)
most important provincial shrine; (arch.) first-born imperial prince
inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc.
OK; sure; yessir!; okey dokey!; understood
zig-zag motion (esp. warship)
to let a chance to do something slip through one's fingers
true love; deep love; love for someone so deep that it can reach a crow perched on that person's roof
perversity; perverse person; antagonistic demon in Japanese folklore; demon under the feet of temple guardian statues
wide difference; a world of difference
second most important provincial shrine; (arch.) second-born imperial prince
precarious situation; precarious state
fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; last-ditch effort
Hades; land of the dead; netherworld
vain dream of wealth and splendour
showing (someone) special courtesy (to persuade them to take a post)
someone doomed to their fate; (lit.) fish on the chopping board
tonoko; powder made from dried clay used as a polishing powder, filler material, etc.
devious mind; sinister thinking; scheming
fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); (lit.) a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit)
(person who is) once bitten twice shy; someone who has become overly cautious due to a bad experience
quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria); quahaug; hard clam; hard-shell clam; round clam; littleneck
steadfastness; firmness in one's conviction; having a heart that does not change as easily as a stone rolls about
Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi)
extraordinary perceptiveness; sharp insight
person who died outside of their homeland; (lit.) ghost in a foreign land
close adviser; close advisor
mountain avens (Dryas octopetala); eightpetal mountain-avens; white dryas; white dryad
clownfish (Amphiprioninae spp., esp. the yellowtail clownfish, Amphiprion clarkii); anemone fish
Ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris)
needle stonecrop (Sedum lineare)
Mercenaria stimpsoni (species of Venus clam)
humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus); Napoleon wrasse; Napoleonfish; Maori wrasse
chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha); king salmon; tyee salmon; Columbia River salmon; black salmon; chub salmon
Xenograpsus novaeinsularis (crab species)