noun:

• playful literature originating from haiku

noun:

• various forms of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetry, sarugaku acrobatics performance) ➜ 猿楽【さるがく】
• miscellaneous songs popular from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period ➜ 歌謡

noun:

• hybridization; crossing ➜ 交雑

noun:

• assorted stocks

noun:

• idle thoughts; worldly thoughts

noun:

• assorted books

noun / ~する noun:

• trouble; difficulty

adjectival noun / noun:

• confusion

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun:

• promiscuity; promiscuous sexual relations; communal marriage; group marriage ➜ 乱婚【らんこん】
• mixed marriage; interracial marriage; miscegenation

noun:

• routine tasks or duties

noun:

• sundries; odds and ends

noun:

• literary miscellany

noun:

• performing arts; acrobatics

noun:

• small fry; ordinary soldiers; rank and file

noun:

• standard days signifying the changing of the seasons (i.e. setsubun, higan, etc.)

noun:

• low-call people

noun:

• miscellaneous taxes

noun:

• general news; miscellaneous news

noun:

• rectangular bugaku mask made of thick paper and white silk with facial features drawn on it ➜ 舞楽

noun:

• miscellaneous losses

noun:

• variety meat; offal; scrap meat ➜ くず肉【くずにく】
• meat other than pork, beef or poultry (e.g. horsemeat, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• chitchat

noun:

• miscellaneous impressions

noun:

• miscellaneous poems