noun:

• spreading a piece of wet washing or paper on a board

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

noun / ~の noun:

• bleary or drunken eyes

noun:

• trembling or quavering voice

noun:

• knotted cord or rope
• quipu; quippu - abbreviation ➜ 結縄文字

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information)

noun:

• people attending a funeral or offering condolences

noun:

• female or male prostitute serving a monk; "luring a monk into depredation" [figurative]

godan ~る verb:

• to be rearranged or transposed

noun:

• citing or naming a variety of flowers
• multi-flowered design

noun:

• inspection by the empress or the crown prince

noun:

• woman employed in a restaurant, teahouse or teahouse offering sexual services ➜ 茶屋・色茶屋

noun:

• a work or subject to be memorized (memorised)

noun:

• two or three days

noun:

• area on the convex side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 内帯
• area of southwestern Japan south of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本外帯

noun:

• clothing or costumes for rent

noun:

• wrestling performed in the presence of the empress or crown prince - Sumo term

noun:

• getting what one wants by complaining or grumbling; profiting by holding out or taking a hard line; getting more by raising a ruckus - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• suspension of rations or payments

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

noun:

• railcar powered by a diesel or gasoline engine; rail motor

noun:

• hotel that rents rooms to couples either overnight or for two hours' "rest" - From English "love hotel"

noun:

• (ship or shipbuilding) timber or plank

noun:

• evening haze or mist

noun:

• impractical or useless theory - four character idiom