noun:

• traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes; free-reed instrument used in Japanese court music

noun:

• tatami mat with a wooden plank for a core (used in tokonoma, etc.)
• wooden floor ➜ 板敷

noun / ~する noun:

• floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs

noun:

• fortune and misfortune; prosperity and adversity; good and evil; weal and woe

noun:

• essence and fringe; beginning and ending; root and branch; means and end

noun:

• dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

noun:

• wooden board used on the ridge-ends of a roof instead of an onigawara tile (sometimes covered in copper sheeting) ➜ 鬼瓦

noun:

• claw crane; arcade game in which a crane is used to pick up stuffed toys, etc. - From English "crane game"

noun / ~の noun:

• black and white; monochrome

noun:

• good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence

noun / ~する noun:

• ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing

noun:

• rise and fall; ups and downs; waxing and waning; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun:

• blow striking with the flat of the sword
• to slap ➜ 平手打ち
• metal flattened by striking
• tape; flat braid
• type of flat ornamental hairpin made of silver and inscribed with a clan's crest or patterns of birds and flowers ➜ 簪

adverb:

• from the bottom of one's heart; heart and soul; by nature

noun:

• Amitabha triad; image of Amitabha Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta - Buddhism term

noun:

• Bhaishajyaguru triad; image of Bhaishajyaguru Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Suryaprabha and Candraprabha - Buddhism term

noun:

• diseases specified by the Japanese government as being worrisome, having no known treatment and of unknown causes

noun:

• stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist) - Ōsaka dialect ➜ 才取会員

noun:

• conventions to be followed in composing Japanese poetry; phraseology; diction ➜ 句形
• rules of grammar and syntax when reading kanbun in Japanese ➜ 句形

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

noun / adjectival noun:

• trouble; bother; annoyance; nuisance; inconvenience

~する noun:

• to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)

noun:

• books printed in Japan by the Jesuits (1590-1612)

noun:

• selling something by the boxful (in a wooden masu box)

noun:

• sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 鎌髭

noun:

• kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan