(Classical Japanese, honorific, literally, Japanese mythology, of gods and heavenly bodies) Alternative form of 天照る (amateru, “to shine in heaven”)

(collective) the four different states of the sky corresponding to the four seasons

(Buddhist god) Synonym of 毘沙門天 (Bishamonten, “Vaiśravaṇa”)

(collective) Clipping of 四天王 (Shitennō, “Four Heavenly Kings”).

(Shinto, Japanese mythology, agriculture) one of the eight agricultural offenses that is said to have been committed in the 高天原 (Takamagahara, “Plain of High Heaven”), notably by the unruly god 素戔嗚 (Susanoo), namely 畔放 (ahanachi, “breaking down ridges”), 溝埋 (mizoume, “covering ditches”), 樋放 (hihanachi, “releasing irrigation sluices”), 重播 (shikimaki, “double planting”), 串刺 (kushisashi, “setting up stakes”), 生剥 (ikehagi, “skinning alive”), 逆剥 (sakahagi, “skinning backward”) and 糞戸 (kusohe, “defecation”)

(rare, obsolete) a swan

Kyūjitai form of 楽天 (“optimism”)

(Heavenly) Father (God, the father of Creation)

bat (small flying mammal)

(Buddhism) the rakshasa, one of the twelve devas