方
ホウ
かた • -かた • -がた
direction; person; alternative
Words
方違え
かたたがえ
- setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) n arch
方塞がり
かたふたがり かたふさがり
- unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin) n arch
天文方
てんもんかた
- Edo period office in charge of compiling the koyomi, astronomical measurements, surveying, translating Western books, etc. n arch
方位神
ほういじん
- God of directions (generic terms referring to many different Gods) n
詮方ない
せんかたない
- it cannot be helped; there is no way adj-i
- intolerable; unbearable adj-i arch