boy; son; baby boy; young man
to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld); Ksitigarbha; Jizō
time around sunset; early evening
the whole day; all the day
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
depending on; as soon as; immediately after; as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"); whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"); order; program
how should I put it?; what shall I say?; well, you know; like
to finish reading; to read through
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)
sermon; preaching; remonstration; scolding; lecturing
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
one day; (on) a certain day
oracle; revelation; divine message
(a) little; somewhat; somehow
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
State Shintō; nationalistic form of Shinto, formerly the official religion of Japan
systematization; systematisation; organization; organisation
genealogy; lineage; family tree; pedigree
Orikuchi Shinobu (1887.2.11-1953.9.3)
to discuss; to talk about; to argue; to dispute; to take into consideration; to make an issue of
early; primitive; primordial
ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami
descendant; posterity; offspring
prosperity; thriving; flourishing
proxy; agent; substitute; deputy; alternate; representative
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
episode; anecdote; vignette
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
to read and understand; to subject to close analysis; to read deeply; to decipher; to decode