expression:

• the worst goes foremost; those one eagerly await will not arrive first - proverb

noun:

• quiver (worn on the right hip; post-Nara period)

noun:

• clay bed-warmer (cylindrical with holes in the sides, containing a brazier)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• catharsis; purgation; evacuation; purging the bowels; diarrhea

noun / ~する noun:

• pouring out (water, etc.) ［しゃか］ - orig. meaning

noun:

• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (Persicaria orientalis); prince's feather

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• off-the-job training

noun:

• Monodontidae; cetacean family comprising the narwhal and white beluga whale

noun:

• "ear-hanging" scallop spat, i.e. piercing the resilium to string them

noun:

• lucky bamboo branch (sold during the Toka Ebisu festival in early January)

noun:

• blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus, species found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ ブラックバックバタフライフィッシュ

~と adverb:

• feelings; memories; imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other - onomatopoeia ➜ にょきにょき

noun:

• four-eye pygmy goby (Trimma hayashii, found from Japan to the Solomons)

noun:

• blacktip sawtail catshark (Galeus sauteri, found in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines)

noun:

• house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

noun:

• cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子

noun:

• split election (where two or more candidates from the same party stand)

noun:

• stick used to drive off birds (during the New Year's procession) - archaism ➜ 鳥追

noun:

• obi that is not tied but merely wrapped around the body

noun:

• pavilion used as the emperor's habitual residence (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

noun:

• ceremony for appointing officials other than ministers (from the Heian period)

noun:

• Golden Light Sutra (as translated into Chinese by the monk I Ching) ➜ 金光明経

noun:

• low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)

noun:

• appearing rustic
• ancient song played at the court
• comical tanka ➜ 狂歌

noun:

• economic boom created by the Tokyo Olympic Games (1962-1964)