noun:

• style of Shinto architecture in which the main hall and worship hall share one roof, and are connected via an intermediate passageway

noun / suffix noun:

• fish, meat, vegetables, etc. pickled in kōji and salt; food pickled in malted rice ➜ 麹【こうじ】

noun:

• people who lived in Kyushu in ancient times, and who opposed the state of Yamato

noun:

• samurai costume; old ceremonial costume
• top and bottom; up and down; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends ［上下］ - orig. meaning

expression:

• Excuse me for interrupting you when you are so busy (formal phrase used in business letters, etc.)

noun:

• toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox

noun:

• wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

noun / ~の noun:

• bittersweet; having mingled feelings of joy and sorrow; joy and sorrow alternating in one's heart - four character idiom

noun:

• pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine

adverb:

• in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it ➜ 詰まり【つまり】

noun:

• (finger) ring ➜ 指輪
• metal thimble ➜ 指貫【ゆびぬき】
• ring used to constrict a finger to make it small and beautiful - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• selling by measure; selling by weight; selling by volume

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• (a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs

noun / ~する noun:

• going to work and leaving work; clocking in and clocking out

adverb:

• anything and everything; all sorts of things; by all means ➜ 何でもかでも

expression:

• anything and everything; all sorts of things; by all means

noun:

• straw skirt; grass skirt; traditionally worn by hunters and fishermen

noun:

• prefectural senior high school (in Kyoto and Osaka prefectures); public senior high school (in Kyoto and Osaka prefectures) ➜ 県立高等学校

noun:

• standard length of material used in a kimono; roll of material

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of polite speech (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ ですます体

noun:

• grass used for thatching; sedge used for thatching

particle:

• denotes uncertainty ➜ とやら
• such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like; A and B and whatnot - as ＡやらＢやら...

noun:

• getting what one wants by complaining or grumbling; profiting by holding out or taking a hard line; getting more by raising a ruckus - colloquialism

adjectival noun / noun:

• no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken
• hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless
• cannot; must not; not allowed

noun:

• neutral point (in go); intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game