noun:

• (recorded) man-on-the-street interview

noun:

• strips of daikon sliced the long way and dried

noun:

• spirits of the dead

noun:

• friends from the same hometown

noun:

• tempura made with egg yolk in the batter (hence golden colored) ➜ 天麩羅
• gold plate - slang

expression:

• at the time of writing

noun / ~の noun:

• the rear

noun:

• officer below the rank of major; company officer

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to shame the name (of); to blot the reputation (of)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking (score) the first two points of the game

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to wipe the slate clean; to start anew ➜ 白紙に戻す

expression:

• in view of the facts

noun:

• elm bark clothes traditionally worn by the Ainu; elm bark textile - From Ainu

noun:

• thirty-first day of the month
• thirty-one days

noun:

• a purveyor to the government - four character idiom

noun:

• year of the Dragon ➜ 辰の年【たつのとし】

expression:

• Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead) ➜ 閻魔
• (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term ➜ 北玉時代

expression:

• what is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb - proverb

noun:

• signature or written seal at the end of a document

noun:

• aligning one's chopsticks by tapping them on the table, a dish, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• the Taira (Heike) family

noun:

• young woman who uses the first person pronoun "ore" - manga slang ➜ 俺【おれ】

noun:

• the nobility
• visitors - polite language

noun:

• inflammation of the cornea