noun:

• (roll) box pallet - from cargo (con)tainer

noun / ~する noun:

• zoom in ➜ ズームアウト

noun:

• making a living in the red-light district - four character idiom

adjective:

• longing for others; wanting company

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• in those days; at the time; then ➜ その頃【そのころ】

noun:

• poke in the forehead

noun:

• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

noun:

• group of buzzards (etc.) rising in an updraft (before the southward autumn migration)

noun:

• hanging curtain used in place of a wall (Heian period) - archaism ➜ とばり

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• gasping for breath; puffing and panting; wheezing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• (while) holding a post or being in office

noun:

• sewing needle for cotton thread

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

noun:

• voiced consonant in Japanese - Linguistics term ➜ 清音・半濁音・濁点

noun:

• song in the style of the Heikyoku ➜ 平曲【へいきょく】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to grow in clusters

noun:

• traveling inspectors sent by the Shogun in the Edo period

noun:

• box pleat

noun:

• welcoming fire for returning spirits (on the first night of the Bon festival) Antonym: 送り火 ➜ お盆

noun:

• arriving in America

noun:

• sticker for new car drivers (green and yellow) ➜ 若葉マーク

noun:

• book for novices; general introduction to a subject

noun:

• certified center for early childhood education and care; ECEC; certified child center; type of combined day-care center and kindergarten

expression:

• continued luck in the fortunes of war - four character idiom

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Science and Technology Policy