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Vocabulary (12)

• 仏檀

  ぶつだん

  Buddhist (household) altar

• 檀林派

  だんりんは

  Danrin school (of haikai poetry)

• 檀香

  だんこう

  Indian sandalwood (Santalum album)

• 檀香梅

  だんこうばい

  blunt-lobed spice bush (Lindera obtusiloba)

• 黒壇

  こくたん

  ebony

• 関東十八檀林

  かんとうじゅうはちだんりん

  eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region)

• 十八檀林

  じゅうはちだんりん

  eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region)

• 檀紙

  だんし

  fine crepe paper

• 檀君

  だんくん

  mythical founder of Korea

• 旦那寺

  だんなでら

  one's family temple

• 檀林風

  だんりんふう

  playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century

• 白檀油

  びゃくだんゆ

  sandalwood oil