entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
front entrance; front door
entrance door; front door; gateway (to a region, etc.)
expert; professional; master; woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes
Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens
mysterious profundity; quiet beauty; the subtle and profound; yūgen
unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice
abstruse; occult; mysterious
doorkeeper; doorman; porter
great-great-grandchild; fourth-generation descendant
refusing to see a visitor
ability that outdoes (shames) professionals
germinated brown rice; sprouted brown rice
day of the boar in the tenth month; mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)
steamed bread made with unpolished rice flour
Heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth
hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people
ability that outdoes (shames) professionals
unpolished wheat or barley
ability that outdoes (shames) professionals
black and yellow silk (offered to gods); heaven and earth
unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice; black rice
ancient Chinese god of the north (or rain, water, etc.)
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
Japanese raisin tree (Hovenia dulcis)
type of slate (from Miyagi pref.)
professionalism; the temperament of a professional
The Agency for Buddhists and Foreigners (ritsuryo system)
unpolished rice powder; brown rice flour
koso genmai; fermented brown rice
Thunberg's geranium (Geranium thunbergii)
Rhododendron mucronulatum var. ciliatum (variety of azalea)