noun:

• stories (esp. war stories) or lectures told by someone near a road or temple while begging for money

noun:

• stories (esp. war stories) or lectures told by someone near a road or temple while begging for money - obscure term ➜ 辻講釈

noun:

• Grand Tutor (second of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods) ➜ 左大臣

noun:

• local card game (usu. a local version of hanafuda or kabufuda) ➜ 花札【はなふだ】・株札【かぶふだ】

noun:

• beauty of form or proportion (in a created object); solid beauty

noun:

• speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date

noun:

• riverbed ［かしょう・かわどこ］
• raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer ［かわどこ・かわゆか・ゆか］

expression:

• the last drop makes the cup run over; too much of a good thing; less is more - proverb

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun:

• first Day of the Rat of the New Year
• first Day of the Rat of the month (esp. of the 11th month)

noun:

• moon (esp. full moon)
• circle fashioned after the moon
• decorative ring on the chest of a monk's stole ➜ 袈裟
• straw trivet
• white crescent-shaped chest patch of an Asiatic black bear ➜ 月の輪熊

noun:

• handwriting; autograph; authorization; authorisation ➜ 墨付き
• certificate; certified document; paper with signature of the shogun or lord

noun:

• Apristurus (genus of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae known as ghost or demon catsharks)

noun:

• young adult still living at home; dependent ➜ 部屋住み
• female servant working for a lady-in-waiting working in the inner part of a lord's house (Edo period) ➜ 部屋方
• freeloader living in a samurai's house
• young kabuki actor in service of a master (Edo period)

noun:

• first ears of rice of the season; first crops of the season; first harvest of the season
• offering (to the gods)

noun / ~する noun:

• founding a country
• opening of a country (e.g. Japan) to the world ➜ 鎖国

noun:

• taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pick up the thread of a story; to resume a conversation

noun:

• taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things
• starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto)
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

noun:

• territory of a stall vendor
• spot on a farm where the harvest would be put in order (Edo period) - archaism

noun / adverbial noun / suffix noun:

• degree; amount; grade; standard; of the order of (following a number); about; approximately

noun:

• bow-twirling ceremony at the end of a day of sumo wrestling

noun:

• focal point of a lens in front of the subject ➜ ピント