UNESCO; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
cultural assets; cultural property
fleeting life; this transient world; sad world; world of grief and worry; the world of the living; this life
emphasizes direct object of action
shutting oneself up in one's house; staying indoors; living in seclusion; house arrest (Edo-period punishment)
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
court music pavilion in a Shinto shrine; kagura hall
sexagenary cycle; 60-term cycle of 12 zodiac animals combined with 5 elements in the traditional Chinese calendar; currently used in Japan for years, historically also for days; 12-year Chinese zodiac
font of purifying water placed at the entrance of a shrine
departure; leaving; setting off
ceremony; matter; affair; with regard to; as for
midsummer day of the ox (traditionally marked by eating eel)
to be violated; to be corrupted; to be polluted; to be stained
the ocean; the great deep
Seoritsuhime (goddess of purification, water, waterfalls and rivers)
Lord; Highness; (arch.) you
great erudition; extensive knowledge; vast stock of knowledge
cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
deep-frying food lightly coated in flour or potato starch; deep-fried food (esp. chicken)
autumn festival; fall festival; autumn matsuri
socks; sock; stockings; stocking
lower garment (e.g. jeans, slacks, skirt)
near one's knee; (by) one's side; (at) one's hand; place under the protection (of one's parents, etc.); (under) the care (of); territory of a powerful person
barefoot; superior to (e.g. a professional); outdoing; outshining
hokora; small wayside shrine
pilot light; spark; live coals (for firelighting)
votive lantern in a shrine or temple
clapping one's hands in prayer (at a shrine)
removing one's hat; admiring (someone) greatly; taking one's hat off to
water content; moisture; water vapor (vapour); steam; dropsy; edema
inside and outside; interior and exterior; inside and outside the country; home and abroad; around; about
hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia
archeological excavation (archaeological)
before god; before an altar
offering (e.g. to the gods); votive offering
Emperor Uda; Uda Tenno (867-931 CE, reigning: 887-897 CE)
to live; to reside; to inhabit
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
five and seven; 35th day after a person's death