noun:

• low-class prostitute who was kept in a sort of cage at the front of the establishment (Edo period)

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• (person who has the) hands of God; master; virtuoso

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

expression / noun:

• one's devoted wife; wife who has followed one through hard times; wife married in poverty

noun:

• person; character; figure; personage; man; woman
• one's character; one's personality
• able person; talented person

noun:

• Sichuan (province in China) ➜ 四川【しせん】
• Shu; Shu Han; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era (221-263) ➜ 三国【さんごく】
• Shu; kingdom in ancient China (-316 BCE)

noun:

• a show; blood-stained mucus discharge that happens during pregnancy up to two weeks before delivery ➜ 破水
• signature mark (crest) used by members of the Imperial family to mark their belongings
• a sign (with honorific 'o') ➜ しるし

noun:

• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

noun:

• Parsee; Parsi (adherent of Zoroastrianism, esp. descendants of those who fled to India to escape persecution in Persia)

noun:

• divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (often brought on by retirement of the husband) - colloquialism - four character idiom

noun:

• priest who was also a street performer and performed prayers and other religious duties for the sake of other people

noun / ~する noun:

• dying alone (esp. of someone who lives alone and dies of natural causes at home without anyone knowing); solitary death

noun / ~する noun:

• dying alone (esp. of someone who lives alone and dies of natural causes at home without anyone knowing); solitary death ➜ 孤独死

noun:

• in-house model; company model; model under an exclusive contract; model who works exclusively for a single fashion magazine

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to

noun:

• type of red brocade originally from the ancient Chinese country of Shu and passed on in Japan
• type of brocade made in Sichuan during the Ming period

noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

noun:

• leader; boss
• upper part of a flag
• (Okinawa) bamboo poles with an attached vertical flag and an elaborate display at the top that are used during the annual fertility and thanks-giving festivals

noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cast amorous glances at a man (of a woman); to make eyes at; to give (someone) the eye; to make advances

noun / ~の noun:

• dry taste (e.g. sake, wine)
• a liking for sake; one who likes sake
• salty (taste)
• harsh; scathing

noun:

• customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues ➜ 八徳
• brothel; owner of a brothel

noun:

• fallen scraps; scatterings
• leftovers; remainder; pickings; odds and ends

noun / ~の noun:

• student who cannot keep up in school; dropout (from school, society, a movement, etc.) - colloquialism - sensitive

noun:

• shut-in; stay-at-home; hikikomori; people who withdraw from society
• social withdrawal; shunning other people