noun:

• gold-colored paper wrapped around the tip of a cigarette (coloured)

noun:

• traditional style of Japanese architecture with a steep thatched roof

noun:

• present (to build up a "friendship" with someone); bribe

noun:

• rice, meat and vegetable dish served in a small pot

noun:

• the mid-month's slate of entertainment in a variety hall

noun:

• seeking to improve one's health with a change of climate

noun:

• foreword; preface; introduction ［じょし］
• prefatory modifying statement (of a waka, etc.)

~の noun / noun:

• tagged (esp. with a price)
• notorious; infamous; double-dyed; hardened

noun:

• opening of a new theater (theatre)

noun:

• salted salmon roe (i.e. a mass of immature eggs) ➜ イクラ

noun / ~する noun:

• statement (of a carefully reasoned logical argument); dissertation; enunciation; setting forth

noun / ~する noun:

• looking down (from the heavens); visit of a high-ranking person

noun:

• wooden stick with a burned tip (used to create underdrawings)

noun:

• obi-tying ceremony designed to ensure safe birth of a child

noun:

• ancient Chinese vehicle with a compass whose needle always pointed south

noun:

• rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a preserved cherry leaf

noun:

• first number (e.g. issue of a magazine)
• No. 1 type

noun:

• alcove slab; wooden board placed in a tokonoma; baseboard; base plate ➜ 床の間

noun / ~する noun:

• interview
• stage debut; first appearance
• meeting - humble language ➜ お目にかかる
• trial for a servant ➜ 奉公人

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to be brought up with tenderest care in a good family

noun / ~する noun:

• appeal made directly to a senior official without going through formalities

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have a hard time of it ➜ 目にあう【めにあう】

noun:

• flyer advertising a sex-related business ➜ ピンク

noun:

• dead silence after a joke falls flat - slang - From English "white kick" ➜ 白ける

noun / ~する noun:

• solidarity; banding together and working as one for a common cause - four character idiom