noun:

• entering the priesthood; priest; monk - Buddhism term
• man with a shaven head
• bald-headed monster

noun:

• bedding that is never put away during the day; permanently laid-out futon

noun:

• Xiongnu; ancient Central Asian nomadic people often associated with the Huns ➜ フン族

noun:

• memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death - Buddhism term

noun:

• New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor

noun / ~する noun:

• drawing seawater to make salt; person who draws water from the sea

noun:

• grapple; scuffle; fight
• defeating one's enemy on the battlefield

noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun:

• sitting while waiting; (according to the lunar calendar) an eighteen-day-old moon

noun:

• heated stone (wrapped in cloth and kept next to the body for warmth)

noun / ~する noun:

• pressing clothes, etc. by placing them under the bedding while one sleeps

noun:

• comical (story, song); comic
• the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.)
• something laughable

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• innocent; naive; unsophisticated; inexperienced; green; wet behind the ears - esp. 初, 初心

prefix noun:

• birth- - 産, 生

noun:

• winter greeting card; inquiring after someone's health in the cold season - four character idiom

noun:

• the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment - four character idiom

noun:

• extended-hours childcare (in day-care centers for parents working into the night) - four character idiom

expression:

• Be careful not to invite the least suspicion; Leave no room for scandal - four character idiom

expression:

• Be careful not to invite the least suspicion; Leave no room for scandal - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else

noun:

• having the penis hang out (e.g. no trousers or pants) - also written 振りチン, etc. - slang - vulgar

noun:

• shell-matching game popular with court aristocrats during the Heian period
• tribadism - colloquialism - vulgar

noun:

• infectious disease originating overseas entering the country through an infected traveller or goods

expression:

• bearing no comparison with; not to be mentioned in the same breath as