noun:

• book of photographs; photo book

noun:

• Ministry of Religious Education (1872-1877) - obsolete term

noun:

• meaning of a picture

noun:

• style of Japanese folk song associated with Niigata Prefecture

noun:

• making things out of dirt (for fun)

noun:

• set of tools (implements); kit; outfit - four character idiom

adjective:

• smelling of blood - archaism

noun:

• period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92)

adverb:

• sound of something small rolling once (often into a hole) - onomatopoeia
• easily
• suddenly
• completely (e.g. forgetting); utterly
• disappointing
• curling up into the fetal position; going to sleep suddenly

noun:

• art of selling; salesmanship

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to spend all of one's free time; to spend one's time without constraint

noun:

• form of torture in which the victim kneels on triangular wedges and stone slabs are placed on their lap

noun:

• feeling of disappointment; sense of dismay

noun:

• the rotting of lumber stored with poor air circulation

noun:

• allowing oneself meat, fish or alcohol after a period of abstaining

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• count of beats in music

noun:

• official size of a tatami mat for measuring room size (esp. a Kyoto-size tatami mat) ➜ 京間
• basic rhythm (in traditional Japanese music) - Music term
• room (in a brothel) of a prostitute of the highest rank - archaism

noun:

• price of wheat

noun:

• hemp rope fastened from the bow of a Japanese ship to the tip of the mast ➜ 筈

noun:

• contempt of court

noun:

• position of power

noun:

• private ownership of land and citizens ➜ 公地公民

noun:

• last day of the third month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• anniversary of a person's death (on which Buddhist commemorative rites, etc. are performed) ➜ 命日【めいにち】
• 49th day after a person's death, on which Buddhist rituals are performed ➜ 七七日