grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
founder; originator; pioneer
motherland; fatherland; native country
true ancestor; var. of vampire (in fiction)
ancestor; forefather; originator; pioneer; grandfather
founder of a religious sect
(sect) founder; apostle; originator; inventor
great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad
originator; pioneer; inventor; progenitor; primogenitor; founder of a family line
ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami
great-grandmother; great-grandma
traveler's guardian deity (traveller)
(divine, historical or legendary) founder of an empire
ancestor who rejuvenated a dynasty or a family
founder of dynasty or sect
ancestor worshipped as a deity
kerchief worn by women in former times in Japan in cold weather, covering the whole head (except eyes)
remote ancestor; forefather
the ancestral Sun Goddess
founder; progenitor; emperor
hereditary; patrimonial; handed down from generation to generation
exposition (propagation) of one's master's teachings or doctrines
Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)
mausoleum containing the remains of one's ancestors
Archaeopteryx; extinct genus of early birds
the first generation of a family; school (of thought) or religious sect
Mazu; Chinese goddess of the sea
founder; originator; introducer
returning to one's fatherland
protolanguage; parent language
ancestors of the Imperial Family
business started by an ancestor; inherited business
to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors
Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)
the founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren)
the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China
Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory
founder of medical science
jointly held concession in China (e.g. Shanghai International Settlement)
Proto-Indo-European (language)
most recent common ancestor
plesiomorphy; ancestral character
deceased grandfather; deceased father and grandfather; distant ancestor; forefather
the eight doctrinal patriarchs who expounded the teachings (Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Yi Xing, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)
symplesiomorphy; ancestral trait shared by two or more taxa
the Eight Lineage Patriarchs who received the transmission of the teachings, leading back to the Vairocana Buddha (Vairocana Buddha, Vajrasattva, Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)
deceased grandfather of the emperor
deceased grandfather; (one's) late grandfather
Zen Buddhism based on the teachings of Bodhidharma
Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; Platform Sutra
Proto-Indo-European (language)
deceased grandmother of the emperor
ancestor of a feudal lord