high-status Shinto shrine with connection to imperial family, imperial Shinto shrine
子宮【しきゅう】
womb, uterus
宮中【きゅうちゅう】
imperial court
東宮【とうぐう】
crown prince
宮廷【きゅうてい】
imperial court, royal court
離宮【りきゅう】
imperial villa, royal villa, detached palace
宮司【ぐうじ】
chief priest
八幡宮【はちまんぐう】
Shrine of the God of War
遷宮【せんぐう】
installation of a deity in a new shrine, transfer of a shrine
迷宮【めいきゅう】
labyrinth, maze, mystery, dungeon
内宮【ないくう】
Inner Ise Shrine
若宮【わかみや】
young imperial prince, child of the imperial family, shrine dedicated to a child of the god of the main shrine, newly built shrine (to which a divided tutelary deity has just been transferred)
宮家【みやけ】
house of an imperial prince
後宮【こうきゅう】
inner palace (reserved for women), harem, seraglio, consort of the emperor
