noun:

• drumming in the streets to announce a tournament - Sumo term
• announcing an event by walking around in the streets beating a drum; drum used to announce an event by walking around in the streets

noun:

• man in the street; common (ordinary) person

noun:

• pond in a garden - obscure term

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); (campaign) comfort women [literal] - euphemism

noun:

• sweet potatoes baked in hot stones or pebbles

noun:

• counter in a sushi restaurant

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• warming something in a vessel placed in hot water

noun:

• last piece in a kabuki programme

noun:

• sliced abalone served in cold water ➜ 生貝

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡

noun:

• main currents (the trend) of thinking in the world - four character idiom

unclassified:

• repetition mark in hiragana

noun:

• sleeping with one's head in another's lap

noun:

• type of silver coin in the Edo period

noun:

• wealthy women who strive to follow the fashions exactly and be seen in all the right place

noun:

• training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video) - abbreviation ➜ イメージトレーニング

noun:

• gold-covered woodwork at a temple in Hiraizumi

noun:

• blindness in one eye; having one eye much bigger than the other; someone blind in one eye; someone with one eye much bigger than the other - sensitive

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to remain in the morning sky (i.e. the moon and stars) ➜ 暮れ残る

noun:

• locked-in syndrome - Medicine term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to call in a geisha

noun:

• precipitation resulting from thick fog condensing on leaves in a forest

expression / noun:

• having one's guts twisted in anguish; deep grief; heartbroken thoughts ➜ 九回【きゅうかい】

noun:

• nuclear family in the postwar generation - From English "new family"