drawing room; parlor; parlour; guest room
guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation
to be refined (character, manners); to be classy; to be polished
square jō (approx. 10 sq feet); abbot's chamber; chief priest
karahafu; bow-shaped eaves of a gabled roof; undulating gable; cusped gable
imperial palace; festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress
pavilion used as the emperor's habitual residence (in Heian Palace)
dismantling a (historic) building and reconstructing it elsewhere
rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction
images drawn or painted on fusuma
wrong; bad; not allowed; not possible; failing grade
Hanshan and Shi De (two Tang-era Chinese monks, often the subjects of works of art)
image; figure; figure; form; image
finding (lost property); picking up
Tang period (China; 618-907); Tang era
eccentricity; eccentric behaviour
handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
middle-aged man; Buddhist priest
private; exclusive; secret
tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end; slope at the foot of a mountain
vista; view; scene; counter for scenes (in a play)
to often be the case; to occur frequently; to be common; to be popular
never mind that; don't worry about that; listen up
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble
tedious; boring; being fed up with
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
Buddhist priest; monk; boy
worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh; klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
(looking) blankly; vacantly; dazedly; (staring) in puzzlement; with a look of amazement
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
hey there; I say; see here
jewel; precious stone; gem
blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish
for more details ...; for further information ...
assistant; associate; duplicate; copy; adverb
samue; monk's working clothes