noun:

• floating nest

noun:

• Lepus (constellation); the Hare

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢節 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢節 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen ➜ うた沢

ichidan verb:

• to divine

noun:

• kinesthesia; kinaesthesia; sense of movement

noun:

• closed-mouthed form (statue with closed mouth, symbolizing the "um" half of "aum")

expression / adjective:

• of noble birth; wellborn ➜ 生まれのいい【うまれのいい】

noun:

• nod; inclination of the head

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dispose of; to sell off

noun:

• beautiful - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 美しい

noun:

• type of brothel in Yoshiwara (Edo period) ➜ 埋茶女郎

expression / noun:

• superior; boss; higher-up
• them (as opposed to "us")
• person above; upstairs neighbour (neighbor)

noun:

• discrimination; historical school of poetic thought
• attachment; distractions - Buddhism term

noun:

• the clear top of a liquid; the clear layer in a fluid, atop the sediment

noun / ~する noun:

• feigned sleep; playing possum

noun:

• song with lyrics about resentment and a sorrowful tune
• resentful complaint

expression / noun:

• birthplace

noun:

• pinnately venation

noun:

• lost article

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to be talented; to be able - idiom

noun:

• rustler; cattle thief

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind

noun:

• receptionist; clerk

expression:

• nurture over nature; how one is brought up matters more than one's origins - proverb

noun:

• broiled eel served over rice in a lacquered box; broiled eel and rice served in two separate stacked boxes, with eel in top box and rice in bottom box