(n) var. of traditional white, uncreased Japanese paper, made from high-quality mulberry wood
(n) votive tablet
(n) votive offering
(n) imperial messenger to a shrine
envoy returning courtesies
(n) free service after one has finished one's apprenticeship
(n) free service after one has finished one's apprenticeship
(n) inquiring into the health (frame of mind) of someone
paying one's respects to someone
(v5r) (pol) to look up
(n) apprenticeship
(n,vs) labor service
labour service
(n) free service after one has finished one's apprenticeship
(v5r) (pol) to serve
to build as commanded
(n) governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines
(n) voluntary social service
(n) (obs) domestic service
working as a housemaid
domestic help
domestic helper
(n) restoration of imperial rule
(n,vs) apprenticeship
(n) working as a servant for a series of masters
(n) apprenticeship
indenture
(n) apprenticeship
(n,vs) the return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor
(n) service with a samurai family
serving in a samurai household (as a valet, chambermaid, etc.)
(exp) to offer a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god
(n) voluntary activity
voluntary service
labor of love
(n) ritual sumo matches held at a shrine
(v5r) to praise
to render homage to
(n) selfless devotion
(n) social worker
(n) (obs) Ise Shrine Offering Association (secular organization formed from Jingu-kyo in 1899; dissolved in 1946)
(exp) to obey orders
