noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんすことば

noun:

• the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them - four character idiom
• (in colloquial usage, ironically or as an excuse) the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor

noun:

• different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes - four character idiom ➜ 同工異曲【どうこういきょく】

noun:

• the Inquisition

noun:

• Day-of-the-Boar mochi (made with new grains) ➜ 亥の子の祝

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

adjectival noun / noun:

• being cleared of all the charge (brought against one); being found completely innocent - four character idiom

noun:

• the Orient for the Orientals

noun:

• young woman who uses the first person pronoun "boku" - manga slang ➜ オレっ娘

noun:

• memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• under the staircase; understairs

noun:

• this world (life) and the next; eternity - four character idiom

noun:

• twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activites - obscure term ➜ 十二直

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard)

expression:

• man is the measure of all things - proverb

noun:

• the ocean; the great deep

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

expression:

• out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den [literal] - proverb

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

noun:

• classification of the sutras and their teachings - Buddhism term

noun:

• white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

noun:

• single chopstick stuck upright into the bowl of rice offered to the deceased at their funeral

noun:

• sound of the strings

noun:

• the whole world; all lands

noun:

• reverence for the emperor; advocate of imperial rule