noun / ~する noun:

• reciting (a poem) from memory - archaism ➜ 諳んじる
• rote recitation (without understanding) - archaism

noun:

• thousand-day walk through the mountains from Hieizan to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto (ascetic practice of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term

noun:

• type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; wake-up sweets

noun / ~する noun:

• forming a kong by adding a tile drawn from the wall to a declared pung - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

noun:

• soba made from freshly harvested buckwheat

noun:

• preventing a ship from passing or from leaving port

noun:

• toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox

noun:

• wind coming from the top of a mountain ➜ 山颪【やまおろし】

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan ➜ あゆの風【あゆのかぜ】

noun:

• red vinegar made from fermented sake lees - Food term
• plum vinegar with perilla leaves added - Food term ➜ 白酢

noun:

• taking food directly from a communal dish with one's own chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 取り箸

noun:

• secession from a party

noun:

• kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji; kanji enclosure-type radical - e.g. 道, 起

noun:

• literary style from the Heian era onwards, often mainly in kana and written by women

noun:

• recovery from exhaustion

noun:

• instruction from a master

expression / noun:

• narrow escape from death

noun:

• migrant worker from the countryside (in China) ➜ 民工

noun:

• man from eastern Japan (esp. Edo or elsewhere in the Kanto region)

noun:

• life in natural setting, free from worldly cares - four character idiom

noun:

• Law for Prohibiting Minors from Smoking

noun:

• copying calligraphy from a model ➜ 臨書

yodan ~る verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to be far away from the city; to be remote - archaism