noun:

• utility room (with sink, washing machine, etc. in a house or apartment)

noun:

• mischief-maker; trickster; prankster
• lascivious person (esp. a loose woman) - archaism
• useless fellow - archaism
• mouse; rat - archaism ➜ 鼠

noun:

• hinged bamboo water cup or trough, which makes a percussive sound periodically as it tips over

noun:

• imperturbability; steadfastness
• cool head in an emergency; keeping one's calm (e.g. during a fight) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil - Shintō term

noun:

• netsuke; miniature buttonlike carving used to hang personal items from a (man's) kimono sash

noun:

• sata andagi; Okinawan sweet deep-fried bun similar to a doughnut - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

adverb:

• cock-a-doodle-doo (sound made by cockerels, roosters) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• cockerel; rooster (childish term) - slang

noun:

• sheep in a tiger's skin; gimcrack; showy without real worth; all show and no substance - four character idiom

noun:

• shawm-like instrument played by street vendors (sometimes referred to as a flute) - From Portuguese "charamela" ➜ 哨吶【さない】

noun:

• corn dog (frankfurter on a stick dipped in batter and deep-fried) - From English "American dog"

noun:

• Newtonian telescope (having a secondary mirror at 45 degrees, reflecting light into the eyepiece)

expression:

• caged bird
• person whose freedom has been restricted (esp. a prostitute, mistress, concubine, etc.)

noun:

• huqin (any Chinese string instrument played with a bow)
• biwa (4 or 5-stringed Oriental lute) - archaism ➜ 琵琶

noun:

• homophone; word with the same pronunciation and similar meaning as another but a different written form

noun:

• rolling (something); knocking down - abbreviation
• fishing with multiple hooks on a weighted line ➜ 転がし釣り
• repeatedly buying and selling

noun:

• rotary cutting; thinly slicing into a long strip (e.g. daikon, carrot, wood for plywood, etc.)

noun:

• preserving in alcohol
• pickling one's liver; drinking incessantly; being a souse

auxiliary:

• word used at sentence-end (like a particle) to indicate speculation, volition or invitation - archaism - Kantō, Tōhoku dialect
• should; must ➜ 可き

noun:

• bi (ancient Chinese artifact; flat jade or glass disc with a circular hole in the centre)

noun:

• boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)

noun:

• Osaka Incident; plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising, 1885

noun:

• interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace ➜ 寝殿造り

noun:

• continuously burning light (e.g. at a Buddhist altar)
• roadside lamp that stays lit all night

noun:

• convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness
• bug thought to cause children's diseases