noun:

• young men and women who frequented Miyuki Street, Ginza, in the summer of 1964

noun:

• senior female worker who supervises junior employees in a domineering fashion - colloquialism ➜ 御局

noun:

• playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who will carry out a task ➜ じゃんけん

noun:

• category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece ➜ 能・天狗

noun:

• lady's companion (paid female companion of a wealthy or high-ranking woman, esp. in Victorian England) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• pouring alcohol
• person pouring alcohol for guests or customers (typically a woman)
• (apprentice) geisha; dancing girl

noun / ~する noun:

• going bye-byes; going beddy-byes; sleeping - children's language

noun:

• baby
• childish person (esp. a young woman)

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• scarcity of eligible men; difficulty for a woman to find a man; man shortage ➜ 女ひでり【おんなひでり】

noun:

• funny word or gesture
• funny part (in a puppet show, kabuki, etc.)
• a woman's temple hair - archaism ➜ 揉み上げ【もみあげ】

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

pronoun:

• so-and-so
• who?; which people?

noun:

• person who carries a palanquin; palanquin bearer

expression / noun:

• women who excel; women in prominent positions

noun:

• ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck
• something strange or suspicious
• idiot; fool
• noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• blacklisted person; person who requires watching - four character idiom

expression:

• he who laughs last, laughs best - proverb

suffix:

• person who is ...; thing that is ... - after a noun or the root of an adjective

noun:

• display of dolls during Hinamatsuri ➜ 雛人形【ひなにんぎょう】
• Hinamatsuri (March 3rd); Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival ➜ 雛祭【ひなまつり】

noun:

• address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages)

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages) - abbreviation ➜ 印地打ち

expression / ichidan verb:

• to warm the bench; to stay on the bench during a sports match

noun:

• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom