personality; style; appearance
reception hall (in a temple or palace)
garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location
to dazzle one's eyes; to hold one's gaze; to fascinate; to captivate
corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)
pressing one's hands together in prayer; triangular frame of a thatched roof; yours sincerely; yours truly
engawa; external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses; bone at the base of a fin; meat at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish)
the East; the Orient; (East) Asia; Japan
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
creating a garden; landscape gardening
Amitabha's Pure Land; Sukhavati
beyond that point; after that
passing on to the next life; death; giving up a struggle; submission; being at one's wits' end; being flummoxed
Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land); paradise; heaven on earth
sunlight filtering through trees
glittering; sparkling; glistening; twinkling
to insert; to put in; to have a griping pain; to flow in; to shine in
to shine; to glitter; to be bright
Amitabha triad; image of Amitabha Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld); Ksitigarbha; Jizō
to experience chest pain; to have a pain in one's chest; to feel sick at heart; to have one's heart ache; to be anguished
to stop (in one's tracks); to come to a stop; to halt; to pause; to stand still
to pass (e.g. car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to get ahead of
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
Wednesday; shaved ice (served with flavored syrup); water (fifth of the five elements)
keeping alive longer; prolonging life; life extension; life-support
to wet; to moisten; to dampen; to soak; to dip
good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck
guide; tour guide; conductor; guidebook
to re-grip; to re-wrestle; to regroup (after some adverse event)
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail
mountain road; mountain trail
deep in the mountains; mountain recesses
hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa); Japanese cypress
making; forming; cultivating; form; appearance