entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
front entrance; front door
entrance door; front door; gateway (to a region, etc.)
expert; professional; master; woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes
Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens
mysterious profundity; quiet beauty; the subtle and profound; yūgen
unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice
abstruse; occult; mysterious
doorkeeper; doorman; porter
great-great-grandchild; fourth-generation descendant
green tea with roasted brown rice
outdoing a professional; putting an expert to shame
refusing to see a visitor
germinated brown rice; sprouted brown rice
unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice; black rice
day of the boar in the tenth month; mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)
buckwheat with the husk intact; buckwheat dried in the sun
heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth
steamed bread made with unpolished rice flour
hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people
outdoing a professional; putting an expert to shame
unpolished wheat or barley
buckwheat with the husk intact; buckwheat dried in the sun
outdoing a professional; putting an expert to shame
ancient Chinese god of the north (or rain, water, etc.)
black and yellow silk (offered to gods); heaven and earth
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
Japanese raisin tree (Hovenia dulcis)
rug one steps onto from the foyer; doormat (outside the door of a house, etc.)
type of slate (from Miyagi pref.)
professionalism; the temperament of a professional
The Agency for Buddhists and Foreigners (ritsuryō system)
unpolished rice powder; brown rice flour
koso genmai; fermented brown rice
Thunberg's geranium (Geranium thunbergii)
Rhododendron mucronulatum var. ciliatum (variety of azalea)