noun:

• the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals - archaism ➜ 旗本【はたもと】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to taste and compare several dishes (or foods) of the same type

noun:

• the end; the extremity; the limit; the limits; the result

noun:

• emotion and reason; logic and emotion; justice and compassion (criminal justice context)

noun:

• offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice - Buddhism term
• twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar
• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) ➜ 臈

noun:

• Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo - abbreviation

noun:

• dazzling victory
• win of a rank-and-file wrestler over the grand champion - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun:

• heated stone (wrapped in cloth and kept next to the body for warmth)

noun:

• referee officiating at bouts of rank-and-file wrestlers in the highest division - Sumo term

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• safety (well-being) of one's family; peace and prosperity in the household

noun:

• perception through the six senses (of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and consciousness) - four character idiom

noun:

• high mountains and running water; the beauty of nature - four character idiom
• beautifully (skillfully) played music

noun:

• being excused from various levies and taxes during the age of militarist government - four character idiom

noun:

• ryūsha; spherical part of a pagoda finial between the hōju and suien

noun:

• Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo ➜ 菩薩

noun:

• waiting for the sun (traditional all-night event of worship and neighbourhood fellowship) ➜ 月待ち【つきまち】

noun:

• way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright

noun:

• small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula, species found in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus, found in Chiba Prefecture and the East China Sea)

noun:

• Prionurus (genus of surgeonfish and sawtail tangs in the family Acanthuridae)

noun:

• travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position)

noun:

• confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized ➜ カステラ・ボーロ・コンペイトー