noun:

• person in his or her prime; man in his prime; woman in her prime

noun:

• young adult still living at home; dependent ➜ 部屋住み
• female servant working for a lady-in-waiting working in the inner part of a lord's house (Edo period) ➜ 部屋方
• freeloader living in a samurai's house
• young kabuki actor in service of a master (Edo period)

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking ground; ground-breaking (ceremony)

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• dumbfounded; overcome with surprise; in blank amazement; in a daze

noun:

• comeback (e.g. in business); reinstatement
• second blooming (in a season); reflowering; reflorescence

noun:

• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Edo in the early 17th century)

noun / ~する noun:

• cut-in (printing); insertion; inclusion

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• built-in; predefined; embedded (e.g. software)

noun:

• dressing (esp. in kimono); fitting; helping someone get dressed
• outer garment (in kabuki)

noun:

• Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century) - From Portuguese "padre"
• Christianity; Christian

noun:

• seats immediately in front of the stage (e.g. in kabuki); pit; orchestra; parquet

noun:

• mountain (in hell) covered in swords, which are buried so their tips point upward

expression:

• in an easy-to-understand manner; in a very kind and detailed way

noun:

• growth hormone (esp. somatotropin in animals and auxins in plants)

noun / ~する noun:

• trot; half run; jog

noun:

• girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family

noun:

• torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

expression:

• scuttling (to escape in a panic, in shame, etc.); scurrying; scrambling

noun:

• coupling
• shipping; pairing of characters in a romantic relationship (in fan fiction, manga, etc.)

noun:

• civil service competitive examination for some positions in the public education system in France - From French "agregation"

noun:

• Protectorate General of Beiting; Tang-period Chinese office established in Xinjiang in 702 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 御殿女中

noun:

• waiting in front of a temple to be accepted for training (in Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term

suffix:

• first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.) - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• washing of bones before placing them in a bone storage urn (esp. in Okinawa) ➜ 厨子

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない