Brahman; Brahma; Brahma; Hindu creator god; Sanskrit
Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva)
(arch.) the art of war; (arch.) martial arts; military force; the sword; valor; bravery
kanji (as opposed to kana); original form of a Chinese character (as opposed to a simplified or abbreviated form); Chinese character from which another Chinese character derives
means; method; art; magic
to study; to complete (a course); to order (one's life); to repair (a fault one has committed)
Chinese name (often of plants and animals)
to flatter; to curry favor with; to curry favour with; to flirt with (woman with a man); to make eyes at (a man)
praise; extolment; extollment
locust plague; damage to crops by grasshoppers
rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya); grasshopper; locust (of family Catantopidae)
class; heading; group; category
song performed while dancing; ballad
10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication
slowly; unhurriedly; easily (e.g. in time); well; well (e.g. sleep); comfortably
celebrating in advance; advance blessing (e.g. of crops)
cultivated field (for rice, etc.)
grasshopper; locust (of superfamily Acridoidea)
landlord; landlady; house owner; home owner; head of the household
seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement
to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate
portable shrine (carried in festivals); palanquin; buttocks; lower back
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from
spit; skewer; proxy (computer server)
Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)
site; point on a map; spot
side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
close-cropped hair; harvesting
to show appreciation for (efforts, esp. by someone of equal or lower status); to thank for; to reward for
eleventh month of the lunar calendar
to narrow; to reduce; to contract
predecessor; pioneer; ancestor
ceremonial offering to the deities by the Emperor of newly-harvested rice
to hear; to imbibe; to drink