suffix / counter:

• counter for games of mahjong - Mahjong term - From Chinese "zhuang"

noun:

• girl-in-training (e.g. a geisha-in-training or a girl who performs miscellaneous tasks in a brothel) - archaism
• brat; scamp; rascal; jackanapes - archaism - derogatory term ➜ 小童【こわっぱ】
• disciple; apprentice - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• utai (noh chant) piece for recitation ➜ 歌物

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• kanji for "takara" (impressed on the obverse of a coin) ➜ 宝

noun:

• aural highlight of a noh play in which the main actor dances ➜ 曲【くせ】・仕手

noun:

• mouse model for human disease

noun:

• geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) - colloquialism ➜ 辰巳芸者

noun / ~する noun:

• in prison; in the military

~と adverb:

• in succession; in an endless stream; continuing without pause or interruption - onomatopoeia

noun:

• crime for which one's three types of relatives will be punished; crime implicating one's relatives of all three types - obscure term ➜ 三族

noun:

• room for boiling water
• bathroom; bath

noun:

• first year in high school; first-year high school student ➜ 高校

counter:

• counter for generations

suffix noun:

• epoch - Geology term

noun / ~する noun:

• in other words

noun / ~する noun:

• staying in Tokyo (the capital)

noun:

• one's friend in poetry

noun:

• foobar-style name for a dummy variable - IT term

noun:

• bonus paid to sports people for excellent performance - From English "talent money"

noun:

• work hakama for use in the snow ➜ 山袴

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

noun:

• wrestler's belt used in a bout - Sumo term

noun:

• parents-in-law

expression:

• one should not interfere in lover's quarrels - proverb

noun:

• Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power; SNAP