• 宮殿きゅうでん

  palace

• 宮中きゅうちゅう

  imperial court

• 宮廷きゅうてい

  imperial court, royal court

• 離宮りきゅう

  imperial villa, royal villa, detached palace

• 王宮おうきゅう

  royal palace

• 迷宮めいきゅう

  labyrinth, maze

• 子宮しきゅう

  womb, uterus

• 神宮じんぐう

  high-status Shinto shrine with connection to imperial family, imperial Shinto shrine

• 二宮にぐう

  the Two Ise Shrines

• 東宮とうぐう

  crown prince

• 宮内庁くないちょう

  Imperial Household Agency

• 天満宮てんまんぐう

  Tenmangu shrine (shrine dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane's spirit)

• 宮みや

  shrine

• 宮きゅう

  palace

• 宮城みやぎ

  Miyagi (prefecture)

• 宮司ぐうじ

  chief priest

• 宮様みやさま

  prince, princess

• 宮人みやびと

  (noble) courtier

• 宮崎みやざき

  Miyazaki (city, prefecture)

• 宮門きゅうもん

  gate of a palace

• 宮守みやもり

  court or shrine guard

• 宮地みやち

  grounds of a Shinto shrine

• 宮家みやけ

  house of an imperial prince

• 宮室きゅうしつ

  palace, imperial family

• 宮女きゅうじょ

  female court attendant, court lady

• 宮笥みやげ

  box for a shrine or temple amulet

• 宮寺ぐうじ

  Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

• 宮相きゅうしょう

  Minister of the Imperial Household

• 宮城きゅうじょう

  Imperial Palace (esp. from 1888 to 1946)

• 宮居みやい

  shrine

• 宮内くない

  inside the Imperial Palace

• 宮座みやざ

  organization of shrine parishioners in a hamlet, parish guild

• 宮号みやごう

  Imperial surname, title borne by a prince of the blood as a head of a house

• 宮刑きゅうけい

  second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)

• 夜宮よみや

  festival-eve vigil, eve of a festival vigil

• 奥宮おくみや

  rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity)

• 大宮おおみや

  imperial palace, shrine

• 中宮ちゅうぐう

  the Empress, the Empress Dowager and the Grand Empress Dowager

• 仮宮かりみや

  temporary shrine

• 姫宮ひめみや

  princess

• 新宮しんぐう

  newly constructed shrine

• 下宮げぐう

  building of a Shinto shrine complex built upon the lowest ground

• 皇宮こうぐう

  the Imperial Palace

• お宮おみや

  Shinto shrine

• 行宮あんぐう

  temporary lodging built to accommodate an Imperial visit

• 守宮やもり

  gecko, house lizard

• 後宮こうきゅう

  inner palace (reserved for women), harem, seraglio

• 遷宮せんぐう

  installation of a deity in a new shrine, transfer of a shrine

• 本宮ほんぐう

  main shrine

• 今宮いまみや

  newly born imperial prince