noun:

• castle on a hill in the plains; flatland-mountain castle ➜ 平城【ひらじろ】・山城【やまじろ】

noun:

• being deeply in debt; being up to one's ears in debt

noun:

• corporate in-service training

godan ~う verb:

• to crowd together in a confined space; to gather and make a commotion

noun:

• fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

noun:

• undulating melodic ornamentation or embellishment, esp. in folk and popular songs
• unit of timber measurement

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting upon; attending on; accompanying

noun:

• one's brother-in-law

noun:

• peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture

expression / godan ~る verb:

• be absorbed in deep thought; be sunk in thought

noun:

• US troops stationed in (South) Korean

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to be based in (a place)

expression:

• variation of "arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period

expression:

• in other words

noun:

• fresh or dried fish preserved in salt

noun:

• feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)

expression:

• in a sense; in some way; to an extent

noun:

• tree covered in fresh green leaves; newly green trees of early Summer ➜ 新緑・若葉

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• frozen in place - archaism

noun:

• hole in the curtains to allow someone backstage to see the audience (in kabuki theatre) - obscure term
• public observation; feel of being watched; casual observers - obscure term ➜ 人目

noun:

• summer greeting cards containing a lottery ticket, sold every year starting in June - sometimes かもめ～る

noun:

• persimmon cured in the sun

noun / ~する noun:

• classifying in patterns; typification

noun:

• child on waiting list (kindergarten, school, etc.)

noun:

• spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures - four character idiom