noun:

• humour; humor; temper; mood; spirits - honorific language - polite language ➜ 機嫌
• safety; health; well-being; one's situation - honorific language - polite language

adjectival noun:

• in a good mood; in high spirits; happy; cheery; merry; chipper

noun:

• elder statesman; doyen; old-timer; authority
• Genro (member of a pre-WWII body that informally advised the emperor)

expression:

• even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade - from the Humane King Sutra - four character idiom - Buddhism term

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:

• Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)

noun:

• Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China between the 3rd & 5th centuries: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)

noun:

• miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke ➜ 片山貝

expression / noun:

• true love; deep love; love for someone so deep that it can reach a crow perched on that person's roof

noun:

• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Edo in the early 17th century)

noun:

• Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century) - From Portuguese "padre"
• Christianity; Christian

noun:

• seats immediately in front of the stage (e.g. in kabuki); pit; orchestra; parquet

noun:

• torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

noun:

• civil service competitive examination for some positions in the public education system in France - From French "agregation"

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 御殿女中

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

ichidan verb:

• to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

noun:

• scent of a flower floating about in the air; lingering scent of a flower in the darkness

noun:

• arranging beforehand to tell the same story; getting the stories straight; coordinating one's stories ➜ 口裏を合わせる

expression:

• the more one looks (at it) the more...

noun:

• hemorrage in the fundus of the eye

noun:

• the matter in question; the said problem

noun:

• the market trend in the near future - four character idiom

noun:

• song in the style of the Heikyoku ➜ 平曲【へいきょく】

noun:

• ball
• ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone) - Baseball term
• bowl
• board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ ボール紙