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first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old)

Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department)

(in China) 12th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C sharp)

seasonal migration (of fish, etc.)

Nigerian fraud

photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions

Ionian mode

bimodal

picking apples

terms and conditions (e.g. of a purchase or trade)

to lose one's footing

Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)

base pair

streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies)

Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (one of the five seasonal festivals; celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar)

of the land

small purification wand

latent variable (e.g. in statistics)

urethane resin

three days' march (approx. 36.5 km)

most important provincial shrine

Imiki (fourth highest of the eight hereditary titles)

homophony (having the same pronunciation as another word but a different written form)

sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries)

to lose one's footing

black rockfish (Sebastes inermis)

number of blows (used in measuring the bpm of an air hammer, etc.)

mirror

Toyouke Shrine (the outer shrine of Ise Shrine)

scratch-resistant