field trip; observation tour
Chinese "Hairy Head" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Pleiades; Seven Sisters
many torii; torii corridor
an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north
to make worse (e.g. disease); to aggravate; to complicate
Leo (constellation); the Lion; Buddha's seat; seat of a high monk
command; order; dictation; nth year in the Reiwa era (May 1, 2019-)
square; formal; prim; stuffy
falcon (esp. the peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus)
quail; Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)
the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)
maiko; apprentice geisha; dancing girl
Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
third month of the lunar calendar; Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE); Yayoi culture
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NASA
pit viper (esp. the mamushi, Gloydius blomhoffi)
middle and high school; medium and high (level)
Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements
without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible
screw; propeller (e.g. on a ship)
uppercase letter; capital letter; large character; large writing; the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big"; huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on August 16 each year
votive picture (originally of horse)
marriage; marriage tie; love knot
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet
Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens
university town; college town
disturbance; perturbation; derangement