Meanings
Counter
Suffix
1. counter for temples
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (29 in total)
Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral
inside a temple
Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine; temple attached to a shrine
temples and shrines
one's family temple; temple with one's family grave
Honnōji Incident (forced suicide of daimyo Oda Nobunaga by his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide; June 21, 1582)
shrines and temples
in a temple; inside temple grounds; sub-temple
this temple
Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century
temple's territory; temple's estate
branch temple
Buddhist temple
head temple; this temple
temple grounds
his true objective lies elsewhere; there are ulterior motives at play; (lit.) the enemy is at Honnōji
various temples
office of a temple
temple's name
Buddhist priest; temple with a resident priest
Honganji sect (of Shin Buddhism)
coarse rice powder
status of a Buddhist temple
the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)
state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
private temple (Ritsuryo period); non-state-sponsored temple
Buddhist temple
temple built at the order of the emperor
Buddhist temple without a dedicated head priest
Examples (3 in total)
I lived in Kouenji.
The Horyuji is the oldest wooden building in the world.
How many rocks can you see at Ryoanji?