gate ②branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master ③counter for cannons

Okinawa family clan based on the paternal line that shares the same tomb and performs rituals together

large front gate

noted family ②prestigious school, organization, business, etc.

gatekeeper

specialist

division (of a larger group)

opening gate

main gate

pupil

becoming a pupil (of) ②introduction (to) ③entering through a gate

expulsion (of a pupil) ②excommunication

castle gate

barrier ②hurdle

school gate

gunport

specialist shop

subphylum

closing time

sluice gate

setting off (on a long journey) ②starting a new life

barking up the wrong tree

New Year's pine decoration

door

barking up the wrong tree

fire lit at a gate for funerals, weddings and Obon

door-to-door entertainment

row of houses ②each house

departure mushroom

laugh and grow fat

stepping outside to cool down

song sung door-to-door

Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period)

words can lead to disaster

Nagato (former province located in the west of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture)

strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow ②kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern ③cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern ④Naruto (city in Tokushima)

clashing waves

kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern

waves in narrow straits

very narrow passage ②perineum

Naruto wakame

Naruto kintoki

Naruto University of Education

incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from Sumatra)

one's hand being completely concealed

Panmunjom (Korea)

Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)

winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (meld)

tiles matching one's seat wind