noun:

• advance payment; up-front payment; prepayment

noun:

• curtains

adverb / ~の noun:

• day after day; day by day

noun:

• underground cable

noun:

• people; subjects; populace - archaism ➜ 天の益人

noun / adjectival noun:

• profound mystery

noun:

• indirect request

noun:

• pedometer

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see - four character idiom

noun:

• complete defeat

noun / ~する noun:

• becoming chronic

noun:

• collateral damage

expression:

• perfectly clear mirror - archaism

noun:

• physician in private practice
• town doctor; doctor who served the townspeople (as opposed to the emperor, a daimyo, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• cure-all; panacea; heal-all

transitive / ichidan verb:

• to gesture to come closer; to beckon; to call; to summon

adjectival noun / noun:

• at long distance; in long intervals

noun:

• slouch

noun:

• hunt (where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters)

godan ~う verb:

• to be mistaken for; to be confused with

noun:

• Matsusaka beef

noun:

• battle standard decorated with hanging strips of paper or leather
• fireman's standard (Edo period)

noun:

• last guest (tea ceremony); third guest of honour (honor); guest who sits in the seat furthest from the host and assists in various ways ➜ 詰め【つめ】・次客【じきゃく】・正客【しょうきゃく】

noun:

• youngest daughter

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to slouch; to stoop; to bend forward; to lean forward