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Dōtanuki school (Muromachi-period swordsmithing school)

to touch each other

lantern ghost

Hakke Shinto (Shinto tradition transmitted by the House of Hakuo Shirakawa)

firing practice with live ammunition

small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival)

gene

smoky fire to repel mosquitoes

Consciousness-Only School (of Buddhism)

house built on sand

land of eternally tranquil light (highest realm in Tendai Buddhism)

to mask oneself

residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period)

point where two ocean currents meet (e.g. a warm current and a cold current)

Indian goosegrass (Eleusine indica)

one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters)

production committee system (joint financing for a work, e.g. anime, film, game)

Oribe ware (style of Japanese pottery)

tsunami earthquake

Margaritifera laevis (species of freshwater pearl mussel)

stalks of butterbur boiled in soy sauce

emergency volcanic alert (e.g. an eruption warning)

Zen Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism

steel formwork

downturn

metal fake sword (esp. one that greatly resembles a real sword)

drafting paper

to demand gratitude

multi-tiered food boxes that can be carried by hand

false dragonhead (Physostegia virginiana)