ticket; token; label; tag; sign; card; playing card
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
elasticity; resilience; flexibility; adaptability
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
sense of color; sense of colour
set; plait; braid; entablature
draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; something full of holes; zaru soba; strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish
basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage
offering; presentation; donation
miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors
bookshelves; bookshelf; bookcase
daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo period)
elaborate; delicate; exquisite
pillow made from bamboo or cane (for use during the summer)
woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)
tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea; hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)
bamboo screen; rattan blind; bamboo mat (for rolling sushi)
striped pattern (textiles, pottery)
Ōbaku school of Zen Buddhism
important intangible cultural asset
holder (of a record, title, permit, etc.)
admission; (self-)acknowledgment; (self-)acknowledgement; self-identification
(person of) high rank and office (exalted station); persons in high positions
shrine built to a guardian deity
universe; realm of thought; underlying principle of reality; manifestation of true thusness; being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); being immersed in; being absorbed in; prone to; apt to
day of month; counter for days
one's chief (literary) work; main work
without permission; without notice
to manage; to deal with; to cope with; to sentence; to condemn; to punish
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
therefore; because of this; for this reason
layman; believer; adherent; follower; laity