noun:

• ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival) ➜ 魂祭り【たままつり】・盂蘭盆

adjectival noun / noun:

• chic; smart; stylish; tasteful; refined; sophisticated; worldly (esp. in terms of being familiar with the red light district, geishas and actors) - いき is also written as 意気 Antonym: 野暮
• considerate; understanding; sympathetic

noun / adjectival noun:

• essence; the best; the cream ［すい］

noun:

• chivalrous man who helps the weak and fights the strong; knight in shining armor
• ruffians who act under the pretence of being chivalrous ➜ 任侠・侠客

noun:

• all of creation following their original natures, living and enjoying themselves freely; the kites fly and the fish leap [literal] - four character idiom - obscure term
• Heaven's will that all of creation shall follow their original natures and live freely - four character idiom - obscure term
• as a ruler's benevolence spreads, the people will find their places in the land based on their abilities - four character idiom - obscure term

noun:

• kindling burned in shrines and temples - archaism
• special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year) - archaism
• kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryo period - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• bossing someone around; having a person under one's control ➜ あごで使う

expression / adjective:

• having a headache
• racking one's brains; troubling over something ➜ 頭の痛い

noun:

• break in contact; not hearing from; having no communication with - four character idiom

noun:

• neither medicines nor medical care having little effect on a patient - four character idiom

noun:

• having too many tiles on one's hand - Mahjong term - From Chinese

expression / noun:

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

noun:

• instant fuck; having sex immediately (after meeting); easy lay - slang ➜ 即【そく】・ハメ

noun:

• last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usually February 3 or 4); holiday for end of winter (accompanied by a bean scattering ceremony)
• last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar) - original meaning

expression:

• kome hyappyo; (ideal of) enduring pain today for the sake of a better tomorrow; hundred sacks of rice [literal] - idiom

noun:

• file wrapper for a patent; correspondence about the status of a patent between the inventor and the patent office

noun:

• before one's eyes; under one's nose

~の noun / noun:

• immediate (e.g. interests); present; at hand; short-run

noun:

• foresight; near future
• appearance

expression / noun:

• being kept in the dark (about); being excluded; being kept out of the loop; outside the mosquito net [literal] - idiom

noun:

• kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji; kanji enclosure-type radical - e.g. 道, 起

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to think of as the main point; to make the main purpose; to put the focus on ➜ 主眼

noun:

• white sandbar; white sandbank
• area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles
• gravel separating a Noh stage from the audience
• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism ➜ お白州

noun:

• criminal, administrative and civil codes (forming the basis of ancient East Asian law; orig. Chinese); legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models ➜ 律・令【りょう】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be out of focus ➜ ずれる
• to be off the point (e.g. of a plan); to have not got the point

noun:

• taiko; title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son - esp. refers to Toyotomi Hideyoshi - honorific language ➜ 関白【かんぱく】

noun / adjectival noun:

• the point of an argument being unclear; the tenor of an argument being poorly reasoned - four character idiom

noun:

• skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom
• child kabuki actor - orig. meaning - archaism