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entrance

unpolished rice

expert

outdoing a professional

hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people

side entrance

entrance door

entrance

steamed bread made with unpolished rice flour

professionalism

front door

magnet

professionals

front entrance

Dark Ocean Society (1881-1946)

airport

doorkeeper

sledgehammer

rug one steps onto from the foyer

entrance hall

Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens)

refusing to see a visitor

basalt

burial chamber

green tea with roasted brown rice

moon

heaven is black and earth is yellow

cloth bag

basaltic magma

basaltic

germinated brown rice

type of slate (from Miyagi pref.)

unpolished rice powder

Thunberg's geranium (Geranium thunbergii)

winter

abstruse

swallow

koso genmai

great-great-grandchild

black and yellow silk (offered to gods)

shingen mochi (sweet made by Kinseiken)

unpolished wheat or barley

dolerite

day of the boar in the tenth month

gibbon

mysterious profundity

Japanese raisin tree (Hovenia dulcis)

ancient Chinese god of the north (or rain, water, etc.)

The Agency for Buddhists and Foreigners (ritsuryō system)

Rhododendron mucronulatum var. ciliatum (variety of azalea)