門前雀羅

もんぜんじゃくら

(a house) looking deserted with few visitors

雀羅

じゃくら

sparrow net

門戸を張る

もんこをはる

to keep a fine house, to put up a front, to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)

門前

メンゼン もんぜん

before a gate

前門

ぜんもん

front gate

婆羅門

ばらもん バラモン ブラーマン

Brahman (priest of Hinduism, members of the highest caste)

羅生門

らしょうもん

Rashōmon (gate in old Kyoto)

一張羅

いっちょうら

one's only good clothes (suit, dress, etc.); one's only suit of clothes; one's best clothes; one's Sunday best

門前町

もんぜんまち もんぜんちょう もんぜまち

town originally built around a temple or shrine

門前清

メンゼンチン

not having called any tiles

門前市をなす

もんぜんいちをなす

to have many visitors (of a home), to be prosperous (of a shop)

寸門多羅

すもたら

incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from Sumatra)

体を張る

からだをはる

to devote oneself wholeheartedly to, to sacrifice one's health for, to risk one's life

我を張る

がをはる わがをはる

to insist on one's own ideas

翼を張る

つばさをはる

to spread (one's) wings

情を張る

じょうをはる

to be obstinate

糸を張る

いとをはる

to stretch a string

宴を張る

えんをはる うたげをはる

to give a dinner party, to hold a banquet

根を張る

ねをはる

to spread one's roots (of a tree, etc.), to take root (of an ideology, etc.)