(mythology, Shinto): A heavenly/celestial fox; a nine-tail fox said to be the most powerful form of the kitsune: Once they turn 1,000-years-old, they gain all nine of their tails, turn a golden color, and ascend to the heavens, where they become celestial foxes.

(idiomatic) the course of events by Heaven, God's providence

a male given name

Alternative spelling of 天下り: descent to earth from heaven; an avatar; in Japan's postwar period, the practice of awarding a high-level bureaucrat with a high-paying job after retirement (also spelled 天下り): a kind of revolving door syndrome

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess / (poetic) the Sun

(epithet) heavenly, august, in heaven (from the literal sense of “shining in heaven” as an honorific verb phrase; used to modify a noun or noun phrase)

a surname

a surname

imperial coronation crown / (Buddhism) celestial crown worn by Buddha and celestial beings

Tenchō era (January 824–January 834)