fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale

Word usually written using kana alone; Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'; Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)

empty; hollow; bare; vacant; deserted

Buddhism; Orig. meaning

main hall of a temple (often vast and empty)

nursing; nurse; attending; attendant; entertainer

Abbreviation; Common noun; Buddhism

temple (esp. large one); monastery

Noun, used as a suffix; Buddhism

temple building

attending someone through the night (of a guard, nurse)

sleeping with a man (at his bidding)

overnight vigil before burial

aloes wood (Taxus cuspidata var. nana)

aloes-wood perfume; aloes-wood incense

Polite

attending (upon); keeping another company; being a confidant; serving (a nobleman)

Abbreviation

fairy tale

large temple edifice; large temple

fairyland; never-never land

incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from Malacca)