noun:

• white cloth or kimono with black or indigo splash patterns

noun:

• family or brothel with a beautiful woman
• vermillion-lacquered mansion - orig. meaning

noun:

• white robe or costume

noun:

• kanji "road" or "advance" radical (radical 162) ➜ 之繞を掛ける

noun:

• special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• levelling a powder or liquid (when measuring)

noun:

• notice or order handed down from above; announcement; notification ➜ 達し
• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) to the concerned parties ➜ 御触書

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to wash one's hair or body; to bathe in water - archaism
• to receive (a favor, blessing, benefit) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• starting late or behind schedule

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to be a willing cats-paw or tool for a person

noun:

• boiled rice mixed with vegetables and meat or fish - Food term ➜ 加薬飯

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to step over or across; to overcome

noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

noun:

• praying at a temple or shrine for help to stop drinking

noun:

• square or rectangular bento box containing cross-shaped separators

expression:

• believe it or not

noun:

• discrimination by birth or rank

expression:

• give me liberty, or give me death

adverb:

• with a clashing or clanging sound - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• catching a fishing hook on seaweed, coral, etc. on the seabed or riverbed

noun:

• erotic or pornographic literature (Edo period)

noun:

• dobsonfly or stonefly larva - in Shinshu

noun / ~の noun:

• straight-laced or stubborn person

noun:

• news source or topic

noun / ~する noun:

• ranging over or scouting out a territory; searching far and wide (for); reading extensively