interest; entertainment; pleasure; implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)
good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck
to rebuild; to reconstruct
haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
senryū; comic haiku; humorous seventeen-mora poem
kaki; Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki)
to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone
to look upwards; to look up
to creak; to squeak; to grate; to grind; to rasp
cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
flying; leaping; zero; naught; flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo); running out of points (zero or fewer)
tower; steeple; spire; stupa; pagoda; dagoba
the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
main shrine; inner sanctuary
your company; your shrine
pile; heap; counter for things that are stacked, piled up (or layered, etc.); layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat; combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours)
dedication; offering; presentation; oblation
the treasure that is children; child
beyond; across; the other side; the distance
solemn (ceremony, atmosphere, etc.); austere; grave; majestic; dignified; stately
friendly; easy to get on with; easy to talk to; easy to like
way; method; means; resource; course
to become hungry; to get an empty stomach
rice, meat and vegetable dish served in a small pot
food porn (i.e. appetizing pictures of food); terrorizing people by posting food porn
pudding (esp. custard); black hair dyed blond but where the roots have again turned black
zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
urethane foam; polyurethane
idle thoughts; worldly thoughts
worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh; klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)