noun:

• Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water - Buddhism term

noun:

• loach stew; loaches boiled in soy sauce with stewed eggs and slivered burdock root - Food term ➜ 泥鰌

expression:

• currying favour (favor); brown-nosing; bootlicking; sucking pus from carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids (haemorrhoids) [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• woman or girl who acts cute by playing innocent and helpless - derogatory term - slang ➜ ぶる

noun:

• true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)

noun / ~する noun:

• ranging over or scouting out a territory; searching far and wide (for); reading extensively

noun:

• women's obi with a different colour on each side (originally black and white)

noun:

• fish sliced open, seasoned with mirin, soy sauce, etc. and dried in the sun

noun:

• distal pronoun (indicating distance from both speaker and listener, i.e. are, asoko, achira) - Linguistics term

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

noun:

• sirenian (any aquatic mammal of order Sirenia, incl. manatees, and dugongs); sea cow

noun:

• geisha; Japanese singing and dancing girl
• dressed-up beautiful woman

noun:

• oshizushi; sushi rice and other ingredients pressed in box or mould (mold) - Food term

noun:

• powdered green tea (steamed and dried before being stone-ground) ➜ 抹茶

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean) - derogatory term

noun:

• beshimi; noh mask with a slanted mouth, bulging eyes and large nostrils

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term ➜ 貴輪時代

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• dripping ink marks; a work of calligraphy being written in bold and vivid strokes - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• conjectures and surmises; speculation; giving one's imagination full play without any ground - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• a sense of release (as if one had wings and were riding on air) - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• freely; right and left; active without any restraint; with unrestricted energy in all directions - four character idiom