gate; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master; division; phylum; counter for cannons
speciality; specialty; subject of study; expert; area of expertise
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
gatekeeper; door guard; doorman; concierge; janitor
division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category
noted family; noble family; prestigious school, organization, business, etc.
before the gate; in front of the gate
technical (e.g. discussion); exclusive; professional
barrier; checkpoint; gateway; hurdle; obstacle; trial
specialist shop; shop specializing in a few types of product
family; clan; sect; school; group of related sumo stables
closing time; lockup; curfew
entering an institution; beginning training; primer; manual; introduction (to)
leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out; starting a new life; starting life anew
outside of one's area of expertise
turning another away at the gate or front door; refusing to receive a caller
vocational school; technical school
the northeastern (unlucky) direction; person or thing to be avoided; (lit.) the demon's gate; weak point; Achilles' heel
expulsion (of a pupil); excommunication; anathema
barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house
sluice gate; water gate; flood gate
military family; warrior class
emperor (of Japan); mikado; (the gates of an) imperial residence
area of expertise; (one's) field; (one's) line
technical book; specialized book; treatise
pupil; disciple; follower
one's pupil; one's student; one's follower
gunport; embrasure; muzzle
Nagato (former province located in the west of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture)
outsider; layman; amateur
(treasuring something by) never taking (it) off the premises
expertise; special knowledge; technical knowledge; expert knowledge
to knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil
disciple; pupil; follower
professional job; profession
outside a gate; beyond one's area of expertise
gatekeeper; doorman; porter
(in the) style of a gate; gate-equipped (house, shop, etc.); kanji "gate" radical (radical 169)
side gate; side door; service entrance
the strait gate (in the Bible); the narrow gate; high barrier (to enter a highly competitive school, company, etc.); difficult hurdle; difficulty
closing of a gate; (Edo-period) house confinement
to capitulate; to surrender; to submit to; to concede
primer; manual; introductory book
lineage; pedigree; good family
arch of triumph; triumphal arch
New Year's pine decoration
Vaisravana (guardian god of Buddhism)
gateway to success; opening to honours; opening to honors
large triple gate to temple
gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture); central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple); central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)
strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame
to capitulate; to surrender; to submit to; to concede
specialization; specialty; speciality; expertise
follower (of religion; esp. Jōdo Shinshū practitioners); believer
to open the door (to the world, women, etc.)
specialist journal; specialized magazine; specialised magazine
(religious) denomination; sect
to knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil
town originally built around a temple or shrine
small gate; side gate; wicket gate; side door
shramana (wandering monk)
two-storied gate; tower gate
gate of a (Shinto) shrine
(head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)
expertise; special skills
shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
family clan based on the paternal line, sharing the same tomb and performing rituals together (Okinawa)
specialization; specialisation
main southern gate (of a temple, castle town, etc.)
technical training; professional education
Deva gate; temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings; temple gate of the Nio
you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; (lit.) a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught)
bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink
specialist training; upper-level course
doorplate; nameplate; gate pass
beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)
door-to-door entertainment; door-to-door entertainer; strolling musician; street musician
Kanmon Straits (between Honshu and Kyushu)
red gate (esp. at Tokyo University)
beginner; newcomer; novice; new pupil; new disciple
Zen; entering the path of Zen
expert (technical) knowledge; expertise
division of a religious sect; branch of a school
special (specialized, specialised) subject
the twelve gates of Heian's greater palace
technical journal (periodical, magazine)
Hamaguri Rebellion (1864); Kinmon incident
laugh and grow fat; (lit.) good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile
spiracle (respiratory pores in the body of insects)
to close the door (to); to shut the door (to); to exclude
Brahman (priest of Hinduism, members of the highest caste); Brahmanism; priest of Brahmanism
unlucky quarter (southwest)
anal sex; anal intercourse
a pass allowing one through a gate
pylorus; opening of stomach into duodenum
bloodline; lineage; family; clan
laugh and grow fat; (lit.) good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile
unprofitable department; loss-making division; loss-making segment
person who is ignorant outside his field
gate for important persons; gate of honor
karamon; large gate with a karahafu gable (typically at a temple, shrine or castle)
person who is ignorant outside his field
to capitulate; to surrender; to submit to; to concede
head priest of temple formerly led by founder of sect
proctology department; proctology clinic; proctology
door-to-door entertainment; door-to-door entertainer; strolling musician; street musician
row of houses; each house; every house
bedroom entrance; bedroom; home; family life; household
you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; (lit.) a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught
(in the) style of a gate; gate-equipped (house, shop, etc.); kanji "gate" radical (radical 169)
door-to-door entertainment; door-to-door entertainer; strolling musician; street musician
gateway to success; opening to honours; opening to honors
main southern gate of the Heian Palace's reception compound
house arrest; being placed in confinement at home
Avalokitesvara Sutra; Kannon Sutra
to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)
advisory committee; committee of experts; advisory panel
perineum; area between sex organs and the anus; very narrow passage
corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture)
Panmunjon (Korea); Joint Security Area (Korean Demilitarized Zone)
between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire
door-to-door entertainment; door-to-door entertainer; strolling musician; street musician
main gate; front gate; latter half of the Lotus Sutra, which describes the nature of the Buddha
style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof
Teimon school (of haikai, founded by Matsunaga Teitoku)
expert committee; technical committee
Chancellery (Tang-dynasty China)
Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989); Tiananmen Square Incident
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
small gate in a mud or stone wall
Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)
Taira-no-Masakado Rebellion (939-940 CE)
government office; public office
Hamaguri Gomon incident (1864 clash between pro and anti-shogunate forces)
Deva gate; temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings; temple gate of the Nio
to have many visitors (of a home); to be prosperous (of a shop)
specialist newspaper; trade journal; specialist journal
imperial envoy gate; temple gate used by imperial envoy
service sector; tertiary sector
specialist outpatient department
(in the) style of a gate; gate-equipped (house, shop, etc.); kanji "gate" radical (radical 169)
barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house
fire lit at a gate for funerals, weddings and O-Bon
wicket (e.g. in cricket); castle; stumps
Naruto kintoki; sweet potato grown in sandy soil
disciple of Confucius; Confucian school
great and powerful person
corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture)
soft spot (in the skull of an infant); fontanelle; fontanel; gates of Hades; entrance to the underworld
beautifully decorated gate; female genitalia
words can lead to disaster; the tongue is the root of calamities; the more you open your mouth the more likely you are to put your foot in it
cardiologist; heart specialist
Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)
house arrest; being placed in confinement at home
barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house
alumni of Waseda University
row of houses; each house; every house
painful reproach (like a needle stuck in one's scalp)
to have many visitors (of a home); to be prosperous (of a shop)
enter through the narrow gate (for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction); enter ye in at the strait gate
first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being
having a constant stream of visitors; being thronged with callers
group of specialists; group of experts
Chelicerata; suborder comprising arachnids, sea spiders, and horseshoe crabs
Chordata (phylum of deuterostome animals)
Ōtenmon conspiracy; political incident in 866 CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace
magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)
(a house) looking deserted with few visitors; (lit.) sparrow net in front of the gate
ten disciples of Confucius
Vaisravana (Buddhist deity)
one's hand being completely concealed; not having called any tiles
Platyhelminthes (phylum of flatworms)
words can lead to disaster; the tongue is the root of calamities; the more you open your mouth the more likely you are to put your foot in it
Echinodermata (phylum of marine invertebrates)
internal division; back-office section; indirect department
gate to the garden of a tea ceremony house
Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)
small gate in a mud or stone wall
speciality; specialty; subject of study; expert; area of expertise
reduced to skin and bones
good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile
Nematoda (phylum of roundworms)
Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised)
thatched-roof gate (used as the entrance to a garden, esp. of a tea ceremony house); my home
kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern
Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period)
Chaetognatha (phylum of arrow worms)
Ctenophora (phylum comprising the comb jellies)
vocational school; technical school
vocational school; technical school
chin; jaw; gills; branchia
(good fortune and happiness will come to) the home of those who smile
to have many visitors (of a home); to be prosperous (of a shop)
having only tiles of one suit and not having called any tiles (meld); having only tiles of one suit and a concealed hand
thatched-roof gate (used as the entrance to a garden, esp. of a tea ceremony house)
Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)
clashing waves; tides in narrow sea straits
bringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited
crow; Mr Crow; tanned person; dark-skinned person; (arch.) being penniless
kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern
endodontist; root-canal specialist
ear, nose and throat specialist
influential family; the man in power
book in specialized field; book in specialised field
transformational component
obsolete rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same group of stables
Magnoliophyta (phylum of flowering plants); Angiospermae
anal bleeding; bleeding of the anus
Sanmonto sect (of Shin Buddhism)
specialized classification system
technical glossary; terminology
dried Chinese asparagus root
between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire
single-tiered gate with eight secondary pillars supporting the four main central pillars
single-tiered gate with eight secondary pillars supporting the four main central pillars
stepping outside to cool down; cooling down outside the gate
anal character (in psychoanalysis)
five approaches to meditation; five objects of meditation
five approaches to meditation; five objects of meditation
meeting or association of stable masters belonging to the same grouping; meeting or association of followers of a famous performer (in rakugo, etc.)
five gates of mindfulness: worship, praise, vows, observation, prayers for the dead
Choanozoa (phylum of protists closer to animals than to fungi)
Basidiomycota (phylum containing mushrooms, puffballs, etc.)
Ascomycota (phylum comprising the sac fungi)
Ascomycota (phylum comprising the sac fungi)
Xenoturbellida (phylum of worm-like basal deuterostomes)
Deuterostomia (superphylum of animals)
Hemichordata (phylum of marine deuterostomes)
Placozoa (phylum of multicellular invertebrates)
Cnidaria (phylum of marine animals)
Myxozoa (phylum of parasitic animals)
Acanthocephala (phylum of thorny-headed worms)
Amoebozoa (phylum of amoeboid protozoa)
Chlorophyta; division of green algae
Glaucophyta (phylum of freshwater microscopic algae)
Lophotrochozoa (superphylum of protostome animals)
anal valve; valvulae anales
small gate in a mud or stone wall
Pinophyta; division comprising the conifers
one's hand being completely concealed; not having called any tiles
winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (meld); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles
tiles matching one's seat wind
Naruto wakame; mild-flavoured wakame from Tokushima prefecture
public sector (as opposed to private sector)
good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile
mother's feeling as she waits for her child to return
gathering of excellent and capable people
pharmacy right outside a doctor's office or hospital
to be (practically) deserted; to have no visitors; (lit.) to set a sparrow net in front of the gate
ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism)
karamon gate with karahafu eaves at the front and back
incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from Sumatra)
Honmon Butsuryū-shū (branch of Nichiren Buddhism)
Annelida (phylum of ringed worms)
Beimen Station (Taipei Metro)