Lengths of laid rice straw rope used for ritual purification in Shinto shrines. They can vary in diameter from a few centimetres to several metres, and are often seen festooned with shide. A space bound by shimenawa often indicates a sacred or pure space, such as that of a Shinto shrine.

to show, to have somebody see / to display, to show, to demonstrate / to indicate, point out, to denote / to indicate (for a measuring device such as a clock to show a value)

boundary (of two lands etc.)

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

ground; land / area; region

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to use one's head

use one thing for many purposes / work someone hard