noun:

• type of Japanese woman's hairstyle using a hairpin (Edo period)

noun:

• type of Japanese woman's hairstyle using a hairpin (Edo period) ➜ 笄髷

noun:

• female servant hired at a lady-in-waiting's own expense - archaism

noun:

• following someone through a locked door, thus obtaining unauthorized access

noun:

• falling to the ground like a Buddha statue being thrown down

noun:

• fine white noodles served flowing in a small flume ➜ 素麺

expression:

• in any way; to some extent; even if only a little

noun / ~の noun:

• something that will last a lifetime (esp. high-quality products)

noun:

• introductory clause of a law, patent, etc.; chapeau; main paragraph

noun:

• ghost image; unexpected appearance of something unwanted in a photograph, etc.

noun:

• female bedmate (whose body is likened to a fleshy cushion) - archaism

noun:

• mid-sized store
• middle-class brothel (in a red-light district)

noun:

• pressure suppression (e.g. pool, container in a nuclear power plant)

noun:

• eating one's bento before lunchtime (e.g. of a student)

noun:

• rice field in the charge of a nominal holder (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 名主【みょうしゅ】

noun:

• self-introduction (of a character in noh theatre) ➜ 名乗り

noun:

• very young fish (esp. a konoshiro gizzard shad) ［新子］ ➜ 鮗【このしろ】
• new geisha - archaism

noun:

• ascending trench or pathway cut into a naturally-occurring slope ➜ 横堀【よこぼり】

noun:

• osteotomy
• finely cutting a fish to cut up its small bones

suffix noun / noun:

• visit (to a religious site, e.g. shrine, temple, grave)

noun:

• supervised trading of a stock, e.g. during delisting ➜ 監理銘柄

noun:

• round pillars each side of the wall behind a shumidan dais - Buddhism term ➜ 須弥壇

noun / ~する noun:

• coming from far away to participate in a game, war, etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• falling from bicycle, motorcycle, etc. while driving (esp. in a race)

noun:

• Streptococcus pyogenes (bacterium that causes group A streptococcal infections)