Results, langage used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
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- 腹の皮が突っ張れば目の皮がたるむ【はらのかわがつっぱればめのかわがたるむ】腹の皮が突っ張れば目の皮が弛む
expression:
- one becomes sleepy when one's stomach is full; full stomach, sleepy head; when the skin of the belly is extended, the skin of the eyes droops [literal] - proverb
- 勘定奉行【かんじょうぶぎょう】
noun:
- chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance; chief treasurer; paymaster
- chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)
- 壁役【かべやく】
noun:
- catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen - Baseball term
- tank (character that soaks up damage for the rest of the party in an MMORPG)
- ずばっと
adverb:
- without hesitation; frankly (esp. speaking); bluntly; without shilly-shallying; straight to the point; getting to the heart of the matter ➜ ずばり
- cutting (forcefully, directly); piercingly
- ヤルタ秘密協定【ヤルタひみつきょうてい】
noun:
- The Yalta Agreement (secret American-British-Soviet agreement wherein the Soviets agreed to attack Japan within three months of the German surrender: Feb. 11, 1945) ➜ ヤルタ会談
- 偽装請負【ぎそううけおい】
noun:
- disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits
- 口切り☆【くちきり】
noun:
- start broaching (a subject); opening remark; start; commencement; beginning
- event at the start of the tenth month of the lunar calendar
- opening a sealed jar or container
- 木馬☆【もくば】
noun:
- wooden horse; rocking horse
- vaulting horse; horse used in gymnastics ➜ 跳馬
- the horse (ancient torture device that one was forced to straddle with rocks hanging from the feet)
- 七星【しちせい・しちしょう】
noun:
- the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
- 矢先☆【やさき】
noun:
- arrowhead
- target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack)
- the very moment (when); the point (of doing) ➜ 矢先に
叔父は新しい冒険的事業を始める矢先だ、と言っている。 My uncle says he's about to embark on a new business venture.
- 行灯袴【あんどんばかま】
noun:
- hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism
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