noun:

• picking up a bowl with one's right hand which is already holding one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) - obscure term

noun:

• supplementation, causing bowel movements, heating, and cooling (four main treatments of traditional Chinese medicine) - obscure term

noun:

• back - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• homebrewing; homebrew - obscure term

noun:

• day laborer (in construction, etc.); day labourer - obscure term

noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

noun:

• correspondence; received letter or note - obscure term

noun:

• charcoal burned in an earthen kiln - obscure term ➜ 土窯【どがま】

noun:

• winter daylight; winter sunlight - obscure term
• trying to make the most of each day; devoting oneself to one's parents - obscure term

noun:

• outbreeding depression - obscure term

noun:

• baggage claim tag (at hotels, stations, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...") - e.g. 申し訳ありませんが、あいにく - obscure term - From English "cushion word"

noun:

• tie-dyeing - archaism - obscure term
• heraldic design of a square with a hole in the center - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• depalatalization (e.g.. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese); depalatalisation - e.g. conversion of きゃ to か - obscure term - Linguistics term ➜ 拗音【ようおん】

noun:

• acrolect - obscure term - Linguistics term

noun:

• basilect - obscure term - Linguistics term

noun:

• something worn over tabi to keep them from getting dirty - obscure term ➜ 足袋

noun:

• round dumpling (made of rice flour, etc.) - obscure term

~たる adjective:

• brilliant; glorious; shining - archaism
• beautiful and thriving - archaism
• piled high; large - archaism
• indecisive with fear - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• deep-fried mochi (Heian period) - obscure term - Food term

noun:

• steamed rice as an offering to a god - honorific language - obscure term - Shintō term

~の noun:

• asexual - obscure term - From English "a-sex"

noun:

• vinegar used to wash or season seafood - obscure term - Food term ➜ 酢洗い

expression:

• if a cat washes its ears, rain is coming - traditional belief - obscure term - proverb

noun:

• feces; excrement ［だいよう］ - obscure term ➜ 大便
• large effect - obscure term