understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy
balloon (esp. small, toy variety); airship; blimp
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
(not) altogether; (not) wholly
recurrence; revival; resuscitation
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
food and drink; eating and drinking
to be crowded with people; to be bustling with; to prosper; to flourish; to do thriving business
actually; really; truly; in practice; practically
to employ; to hire; to charter
Shinto priest; chief Shinto priest (of a shrine); Welsh onion; pun in Buddhist monk jargon
main temple building; nave
prayer; grace (at meals); exorcism
light; lamp; counter for electric lights
food offering to the gods; prepared food
calico (pattern); tortoiseshell-and-white; calico cat; tortoiseshell-and-white cat
ancient Shinto music and dancing
nature; property; disposition
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
fortune slip (usu. bought at a shrine)
shrine office; office of a Shinto shrine
stand; stall; booth; kiosk; store
(ceremonial) arrow used to drive off evil
denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
fortune-telling; divination
sales; selling; marketing
prohibition; inhibition; ban
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
number two; mistress; concubine
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
good match; suitable candidate (for marriage); good opportunity to be saved by Buddha
type of cleromancy divination (described in the Book of Changes) performed with long sticks; The Book of Changes; Yijing; I Ching
heeding; paying attention; bearing in mind
bad luck; bad fortune; evil; wickedness
indigenousness; being native (to a region); settling (of people); native; indigenous; aboriginal
taboo; day, time, direction, words, etc. that must be avoided; contraindication