noun:

• zun (ancient Chinese wine vessel, usu. made of bronze)

prefix:

• honorific prefix referring to the listener - archaism - honorific language

suffix / counter:

• counter for buddhas

noun:

• stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; huckster; faker; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise

noun:

• wardrobe (esp. for Western clothes); chest of drawers; clothespress; dresser; tallboy

noun:

• dried boiled rice used mainly as provisions of samurai troops and travelers (travellers)

noun:

• type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection

noun:

• dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi ➜ 蜜柑

noun:

• photo booth that prints out cards and stickers of the resulting photograph, which are then traded among friends - abbreviation - From English "print club"

noun:

• apostille; stamp or certificate of public document authentication in accordance with Hague Convention XII

expression:

• one's word is worth 1,000 pieces of gold; a promise should be kept at all cost - four character idiom

noun:

• form of magic or divination (e.g. animating objects to act as the sorcerer's agent)

noun:

• unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items

expression:

• obviously; as we all know; needless to say; of course; it goes without saying

noun:

• dorayaki; dessert sandwich of two small sweet pancakes and red bean paste - Food term ➜ 餡こ【あんこ】

noun:

• Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

noun:

• ornament
• dead body used to test a blade
• unlicensed prostitute who always works out of the same cathouse

expression / adjective:

• (so ashamed or embarrassed that) one does not know where to put oneself; feeling out of place

noun:

• Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun:

• starfish; sea star; asteroid; any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea
• northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)

noun:

• six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions ➜ カメコ

noun:

• stupa-shaped stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one cho (approx. 109 meters) on a temple approach ➜ 町石

noun:

• traditional work song of Hokkaido herring fishery workers, performed by school students in modern choreographed interpretations

noun:

• flies; area over the stage of a theater (containing overhead lights, drop curtains, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］