noun:

• for a good while

noun:

• desk for a speaker; lectern
• rostrum; platform ➜ 演壇

noun:

• killing someone with a magical curse

noun:

• streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies) - archaism
• being in great demand

expression / ichidan verb:

• to serve a master; to serve one's employer faithfully

noun:

• a knowing look

noun:

• curved wooden support on top of the main beam of a house, now mainly decorative (shape evocates an open-legged frog)

noun:

• sweet adzuki bean paste made of a mixture of mashed and whole beans

expression / adjective:

• not altogether a dream

noun:

• stories (esp. war stories) or lectures told by someone near a road or temple while begging for money - obscure term ➜ 辻講釈

noun:

• capturing a bishop

noun:

• curtain separating a central room from the aisles around it (in palatial-style architecture) ➜ 母屋【もや】・庇

noun:

• land owned by a Shinto shrine

noun:

• posting something to the exterior of a building, etc.; something posted in such a place
• fortifications outside a military encampment

noun:

• Act for Establishing a Recycling-Oriented Society

noun:

• house located on a street corner; corner house

godan ~る verb:

• to perform a small motion repetitively (e.g. picking or poking something)

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to give off a stench

noun:

• type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; wake-up sweets

noun / ~する noun:

• getting slightly intoxicated and humming a tune

noun:

• person with a humble salary; person of a low condition

noun:

• taking photographs for a volume at the request of a publisher
• photographs taken for a volume at the request of a publisher

noun:

• frame of a shoji (paper sliding-door)

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

noun:

• behaving like a god - archaism ➜ 神さびる