noun:

• latticed shutters (in traditional Japanese and Chinese architecture) - Architecture term

noun:

• true Tokyoite; person born and raised in Edo ➜ 江戸っ子

noun:

• half-dried daikon, salted and picked in kōji - Food term ➜ べったら漬・麹【こうじ】

noun:

• payment in substitutes; accord and satisfaction; substitute performance - Law term

noun:

• in and out movement (esp. during intercourse); pistoning - colloquialism

expression:

• openly and secretly; helping in all ways - proverb

expression:

• if even the most crooked person is surrounded by good people, he will straighten up as does mugwort growing in a hemp field

noun:

• Cakraratna; wheel-shaped treasure possessed by the ideal universal ruler, carried in front of him during excursions to allow easy passage - Buddhism term ➜ 転輪王・法輪

noun:

• driving away moles by hitting the ground with straw bundles prepared by children (esp. as an annual event on January 15th)

noun / ~する noun:

• sinking; foundering; going down; submersion
• getting dead drunk - colloquialism
• having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties - colloquialism
• staying in one place for a long time - backpacker slang - slang

expression / noun:

• fruits of one's wife's labour (in assisting her husband's career, e.g. by running the household)

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:

• small tatami room
• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 放ち出
• room smaller than four and a half tatami (in tea ceremony)

noun:

• grandfather (may be used after name as honorific) - usu. 祖父さん ➜ お祖父さん
• male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific) - usu. 爺さん ➜ 爺ちゃん

noun:

• grandfather (may be used after name as honorific) - usu. 祖父ちゃん - familiar language ➜ 祖父さん
• male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific) - usu. 爺ちゃん ➜ 爺さん

noun / ~する noun:

• being immersed in water; being drowned
• being infatuated; being dazed; being blinded by

noun:

• public bath; communal bath
• public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee

noun:

• oshitaoshi; (frontal) push-down; (win by) knocking down opponent by pushing him with hand(s) rested on his body

noun:

• Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term

expression:

• day by day; with each passing day; as the days go by ➜ 日を追って

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)

noun:

• nursing in the home by visiting nurses - From English "day service"

noun:

• beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)

noun:

• school swimsuit; regulation blue one-piece swimsuit worn by pupils in school-based swimming events

noun / ~の noun:

• seitai; manipulative therapy based on Chinese and Japanese traditions, and encompassing osteopathy, massage and chiropractic