entrance;  front door;  entryway;  entranceway;  entry hall;  vestibule
 front entrance;  front door
 entrance door;  front door;  gateway (to a region, etc.)
 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
 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)
 Heaven is black and earth is yellow;  heaven and earth
 steamed bread made with unpolished rice flour
 hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people
 unpolished wheat or barley
 black and yellow silk (offered to gods);  heaven and earth
 ancient Chinese god of the north (or rain, water, etc.)
 type of slate (from Miyagi pref.)
 koso genmai;  fermented brown rice
 unpolished rice powder;  brown rice flour
 The Agency for Buddhists and Foreigners (ritsuryo system)
 Thunberg's geranium (Geranium thunbergii)
 Rhododendron mucronulatum var. ciliatum (variety of azalea)