Glory to the Sutra; Hail Lotus Sutra
partner-swapping sex club
Kōshin'etsu region (including Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata prefectures); Koshinetsu
Macartney; McCartney; McCourtney
crest (of a helmet); plume; pompom; figurehead
Terayama Shuuji (1935.12.10-1983.5.4)
(practice of) self-injury; (habit of) self-harm
backing band (for singer); backup band
bishop wood (Bischofia javanica); barked tree; red tree
Heian era court lady's song (accompanying men's oouta); court lady singing a kouta; ditty; ballad; kyogen kouta; style of kyogen song based on the Muromachi songs, often love ballad
figure of speech; rhetorical flourish
(talent) scout; recruiter; headhunter
cock-a-doodle-doo (sound made by cockerels, roosters); cockerel; rooster (childish term)
floating; drifting; weightlessness; softly; gently; lightly
brandling (when used as fishing bait)
Bulgaria; spirited; rising; sudden; abrupt
to breed (e.g. maggots); to let breed
brothers (usu. in company, etc. names)
to be in common; to have in common; to be in mutually understood; to be mutually connected; to have a link