stop translating, you're ruining your brain mapping

Honestly, if you're still translating Japanese in your head, you're doing it wrong. You need to use cognitive spatial mapping. Kanji with the roof radical, like palace or shrine words, are biologically processed as physical locations in the brain, not words. If you just visualize the physical space instead of translating, it bypasses the language center entirely. It's literally basic linguistics. If you can't do this