painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
all-you-can-eat; eating as much as one likes
number of long thin objects (movies, TV programs, baseball games, etc.) (programmes)
hairstyle; shape of one's head; fish served whole
(corporate) restructuring; downsizing; laying off people
with a crunching or grinding sound; quickly; promptly; crispily; crunchily
main shrine; inner sanctuary
shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil; to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to ferment; to melt (of metal)
invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain
willpower; guts; determination; character; nature; disposition
division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine; spirit divided in such a manner
one part; one portion; one section
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
vacant land; unoccupied ground; empty lot
adding (equipment, facilities, etc.); establishing more; installing more; increase; extension; expansion
Catholic priest; abbe; reverend father; minister; padre
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
theological school; seminary
right after coming out; just graduated
hot (e.g. from the oven); steaming (from the pot); fresh; fresh (e.g. out of university); new (e.g. married couple)
big fan (of something or someone); great fan
gods and Buddha; Shinto and Buddhism
three kinds; three varieties
conquest; domination; mastery
Shinto priest; chief Shinto priest (of a shrine); Welsh onion; pun in Buddhist monk jargon
chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)