noun:

• method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• man who is uninterested in aggressively pursuing women; peaceable men who don't approach women as potential partners; herbivore [literal]

noun:

• lines in operation

noun:

• fireplace used in springtime - obscure term

noun:

• changes in demographics; movements in population characteristics

noun:

• book in Japanese
• book bound in the Japanese style ➜ 和本

expression / ichidan verb:

• to engage in lively conversation

noun:

• there being no use in arguing (about it) - four character idiom

noun:

• collection of essays contributed in celebration of something; festschrift

godan ~む verb:

• to include in a poem (season word, place name, etc.)

noun:

• character written in a cursive style

noun:

• wide-mouthed ceramic vessel having a small hole in its spherical base (into which bamboo was probably inserted to pour liquids)
• teapot-like object made typically of lacquerware and used to pour hot and cold liquids ➜ 半挿【はんぞう】

noun:

• garment worn under the hanpi undergarment or hou robe in court ceremonial dress - archaism ➜ 半臂・袍

noun:

• the strokes in a kanji character

noun:

• stipend in rice

noun / ~する noun:

• publish in paperback

noun:

• shelled skinless peanuts prepared in butter - abbreviation ➜ バターピーナッツ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the lead in; to control; to be the leader

noun:

• renting a house in the same block of houses as somebody else ➜ 相店【あいだな】
• person who rents a house in the same block of houses as oneself ➜ 相店【あいだな】

noun:

• restaurant specializing in meat

noun:

• covering in salt - Food term

noun:

• dumpling cooked in miso served during the dog days of summer at the imperial court
• accompaniments for a rice dish - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ おかず
• wooden pestle - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ すりこぎ
• menstrual period - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• reduction in service (flights, buses, etc.)

pronoun:

• self-deprecating first person pronoun used in letters - archaism - male language

noun:

• ordinary woman secretly engaged in prostitution (Edo period) - archaism - four character idiom