noun:

• refreshing rain once in ten days

noun / ~する noun:

• sharing a table with someone you don't know (e.g. at a restaurant)

noun:

• lecher with a quiet exterior; lecher who doesn't seem it and doesn't talk about it ➜ むっつり

expression / ichidan verb:

• to checkmate the king

noun:

• picture-in-picture - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服

noun:

• noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility) ［ういかんむり］ ➜ 巻纓・垂纓

noun:

• women with low disposable incomes; poverty girls [literal]

noun:

• roofed path (lacking walls) connecting the main residence and the side houses (in traditional palatial architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• marriage in which the bride is taken into the groom's family; virilocal marriage

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to crow at the break of dawn (of a rooster, etc.); to mark the dawn; to proclaim the dawn

noun / ~する noun:

• being in Osaka

noun:

• seafood seasoned with salt and sake then steamed

noun:

• measures for the promotion of; stimulation measure (for the economy)

noun:

• the Japanese nation under the ritsuryo codes

noun:

• text at the foot of a page, document, screen, etc.

noun:

• maid in an Osaka brothel - archaism

noun:

• (announcement over) the public address system (e.g. in stadium)

noun:

• the seven previous incarnations of Buddha - abbreviation ➜ 過去七仏

noun:

• theatre staff who deals with the audience (e.g. ticket-taker, usher) ➜ 裏方

noun:

• small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (i.e. on Awaji Island) ➜ 四国八十八箇所

~の noun:

• much the same; nearly equal

noun:

• hairdo covering the ears

noun / ~する noun:

• going somewhere warmer for the winter; wintering

noun:

• system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith

noun:

• divining the year's crop yields from the shape of lingering snow