noun:

• stockpile rice (kept by the government to use as emergency provisions); reserved rice

noun:

• secret trick; hidden method; trick of the trade; cheat (in a video game)

noun / ~する noun:

• house-sitting; house-sitter ➜ 留守番

noun:

• caretaker or keeper (official post in the Edo era)

noun:

• albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)

noun:

• provincial capital (under the ritsuryo system); provincial office
• public place of imperial rule

noun / ~する noun:

• using without permission; using information obtained in the course of one's duties - obscure term

noun:

• comments on current events; public sentiments of the day; current view; contemporary opinion

noun:

• fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

noun:

• lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house; door light

noun:

• rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)

noun / ~の noun:

• backlighting; having a light source in front of the camera lens in photography - abbreviation ➜ 逆光線

noun:

• dishonor that persists after death ➜ 生き恥
• shame at the moment of one's death

noun:

• Dutchman's pipe cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum); night-blooming cereus; queen of the night

noun:

• warfare in which soldiers fling themselves at the enemy; hand-to hand combat

noun:

• cord tied around the waist of a kimono before an obi is tied

noun:

• bow-twirling ceremony at the end of a day of sumo wrestling

noun:

• geisha - Kansai dialect ➜ 芸者・芸妓
• kabuki actor (esp. a young actor) - archaism ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】
• someone accomplished in the arts - archaism

expression / adjective:

• extremely busy; so busy one would even welcome the help of a cat [literal] - idiom

noun:

• control tower; conning tower
• leader; commander; person calling the shots
• playmaker; game maker - Sports term

noun:

• person who has died at his post (in the performance of his duties)

noun:

• nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine

noun:

• flake; chip
• speck or flake used for the production of stone tools

noun / ~する noun:

• burial (disposal of a body) by exposure to the elements; aerial sepulture (burial)

noun:

• ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank - Sumo term

noun:

• grand champion filling the rank of champion to keep their number at 2 - Sumo term