Words — 521 found
かまくらしんぶっきょう
鎌倉新仏教
1. new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period
1. ground leveling; ground levelling; groundwork
2. laying foundations
1. founding (of a temple or sect); founder
2. laying the foundation (for something)
1. founder; originator; introducer
にほんじんまち
日本人町
1. Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
1. foundation materials
1. leading figure; foundation
1. tray-landscape foundation stone
ひとばしら
人柱
1. person who died for a cause
2. guinea pig (for a new product or service); test subject; sacrificial lamb; early adopterColloquial, also read じゅんちゅう
3. hitobashira; ritual human sacrifice by burying a living person under or near a large-scale construction project to invoke divine protectionHistorical term
1. platform on which a structure is built; stylobate; foundation