overtime; outside of hours (school, office, surgery, etc.)
to meet; to face someone; to co-star; to appear together; to be matched; to face against
the heavens; the skies; celestial sphere; heavenly realm; deva realm
to subsist; to keep on living
first shrine visit of New Year
visitor (to a shrine or temple)
comparatively; quite; rather
shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine
company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.
traveler's guardian deity (traveller)
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld); Ksitigarbha; Jizō
extremely angry; furious; fiercely (shine); blazingly; merrily (burn away); red-hot
sunshine; dry weather; luster; lustre
going and returning (e.g. work, school); both ways
cloth to wipe the sweat off
(flight of) stone steps; stone stairway
guardian deity of seafaring; Kumbhira
rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity)
tragic but brave; heroic; grim; pathetic
torii; Shinto shrine archway
grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts
to run out of breath; to get breathless; to get puffed (out)
ascending and descending; going up and down
to blow against; to spray (paint, etc.) (onto a surface)
proposition; thesis; notion; problem; issue; challenge
grove of the village shrine