to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
general merchant; Jack of all trades
pull; patronage; tug; discount
to saw; to grind (e.g. coffee beans); to mill
foot-operated bellows; foot bellows
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE); Vietnam
Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person
casting; founding; minting
ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist statue or image by inserting the eyes (thereby investing it with soul)
hand; arm; handwriting; penmanship; 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand)
afterlife; the next world; the world beyond
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
cause and effect; causality; karma; fate; unfortunate; unlucky
sick person; patient; invalid
word of Japanese origin; native Japanese word
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
fortune-telling; divination
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
writing on someone's behalf
natural or man-made feature or object on the earth's surface (trees, hill, river, road, building, etc.); object or structure important in a battle, esp. for concealment
former appearance; original form
first rank in the senior class (in martial arts, go, etc.); lowest rank; one dan
demonstration; show of force
weight (e.g. paperweight); pressing down; keeping control; exercising authority; having self-control; exercising self-discipline
marked; pronounced; showing a strong tendency (towards)
visiting a temple for another
advice; recommendation; suggestion; inducement; persuasion
difference; variation; difference
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
spiritual awakening; resolution
favour; favor; favourite; favorite; patron; supporter
judge; magistrate; (arch.) 3rd grade official (ritsuryo system); (arch.) assistant district officer; (arch.) inspector
Shinran (founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism, 1173-1262)
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
person who judges which god or spirit has taken possession of a miko
leading (movement, revolution, etc.); guiding; instructing in Buddhism; converting (someone) to Buddhism; advocacy
one large ...; a great ...
system; organization; organisation; architecture
conception; idea; thought; samjna (perception)
(making a) lesson (of); (setting an) example; warning