to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
heart attack; myocardial infarction
event; phenomenon; matter
source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis
very likely; very probable
arrangement; preparations; search (by police)
pipe; tube; (tobacco) pipe; cigarette holder; go-between; intermediary
passage; path; route; one's way
10,000; ten thousand; 10^4
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
four (long cylindrical things)
(arch.) short roughly woven fence; divider between boxes (i.e. for box seats) in a theatre, etc.
sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)
zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects
ceremonial piles of sand (placed on both sides of an entrance to greet an important personage)
meals exchanged by parishioners and priests
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa); Japanese cypress
placing salt by the entrance to one's establishment to bring good luck; such piles of salt
Lord; Highness; (arch.) you
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
to overflow from something full
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
beginning of next week (usu. Monday); early next week
drawing water; black cotton hat (used as a prop)
to lean against; to lean on; to recline on; to lie heavy (on the stomach); to be uneasily digested
if I (we, etc.) could; if one were to ... then ... (an unpleasant thing would happen)
chocolate given to a friend (on Valentine's day)