noun:

• New Year event to pray for a rich rice harvest

noun:

• skin eruptions caused by a cold or fever - obscure term ➜ ほろ子【ほろし】

noun:

• central pillar ➜ 大黒柱
• principal post; backbone of a society or community ➜ 大黒柱

noun:

• cloth tie-dyed with a scarlet red dappled pattern ➜ 鹿の子

noun:

• traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period Antonym: 紐鏡

noun:

• necromancer (esp. a blind female in northeastern Honshu); medium; shaman ➜ 巫子【いちこ】・口寄せ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a bitter experience - idiom

noun:

• sideboob; (visible) side of a woman's breast - slang ➜ オッパイ

noun:

• South Korean comics (often of a style similar to manga) - From Korean "manhwa"

noun:

• hanging curtain used in place of a wall (Heian period) - archaism ➜ とばり

noun:

• employer (esp. of a geisha, prostitute, etc.); master; mistress

noun:

• employer (esp. of a geisha, prostitute, etc.); master; mistress - archaism ➜ 抱え主

expression:

• coolness of distant twinkling lights (on a summer night)

noun / ~する noun:

• bottoming out; reaching a floor; ceasing to fall; edging lower

noun:

• humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot

noun:

• shroud (e.g. of a reactor core, motor cycle, etc.)

noun:

• people belonging to a hereditary occupation group (Yamato period) ➜ 部【べ】

noun:

• Edo period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber

noun:

• person who tends to trees (e.g. in a garden) - archaism

noun:

• continuously burning light (e.g. at a Buddhist altar)

noun:

• tax exemption for a child under the age of 16

noun:

• attack (esp. a corner approach in the game of go)

noun:

• text at the foot of a page, document, screen, etc.

noun:

• caretaker (at a zoo or aquarium); keeper; attendant; breeding staff

noun:

• Yama's pole (with a human head on the top) - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔