(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”)

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

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

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

(astronomy) white dwarf

(astronomy) brown dwarf

(astronomy) red dwarf

the Big Dipper, the Plough

(astronomy) black dwarf

Synonym of 宇宙人 (uchūjin, “alien”) (life form of non-Earth origin)