responsibility; liability; blame; torture; torment; persecution
counter for buildings (esp. houses); suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
jeweler; (arch.) soap bubble vendor
prince; subordinate Kumano shrine
(regular) route; fixed route; specified route; suggested route
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
name; title; designation; fame; reputation
ancestor; forefather; foremother
fawn colour; fawn-colored horse
entry; approach; penetration
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
lapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass
horseback riding; sitting astride; straddling
carriage; movement (of the body)
owner of a horse (esp. racehorse); registered owner (of a racehorse)
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
alliance and rupture; meeting and parting
Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture)
blindness; blind person; illiteracy; illiterate person; ignorance; ignoramus
repentance; confession; penitence
assembly of monks and laity (at a rite, sermon, etc.); (monks and laity of) the Jishū sect
foundation of a temple; laying a foundation (stone); open base
span of life; one's term of existence; destiny; fate; assigning a name to a number
wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria
omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
insertion; incorporation; infixing
the House of Tokugawa; the Tokugawas
wandering samurai; soldier of fortune; brigand; hermit; mountain ascetic; itinerant priest
group; bunch; crowd; group
pilgrimage; travelling around (by a monk)
counter for tours, cycles, rounds, circuits, etc.
son of a distinguished family; son of a noble
regional governor in ancient China
else; in addition; on top of that; furthermore; further; besides
fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking
pit viper (esp. the mamushi, Gloydius blomhoffi)
Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica); flowering bamboo
to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken
to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest