noun:

• hachiya (variety of astringent Japanese persimmon)

noun:

• fuyu (variety of sweet Japanese persimmon)

noun:

• jiro (variety of sweet Japanese persimmon)

noun:

• lipstick brush
• variety of Japanese apricot ➜ 梅【うめ】

noun:

• katana; var. of Japanese long sword ➜ 刀

noun:

• Hare of Inaba (Japanese myth)

noun:

• school for Japanese outside of Japan

noun:

• type of traditional Japanese conical hat ➜ 笠

noun:

• type of traditional Japanese conical hat ➜ 笠

noun:

• Japanese invasion of French Indochina (1940)

noun:

• kurofuda; type of Japanese playing cards

noun:

• national confession of Japanese war guilt

noun:

• family affairs; family business
• steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages)

noun:

• leader of a female gang; leader of a group of delinquent girls

noun:

• crossbow (incl. large models operated by a number of people)
• netted apparatus atop a wall containing large stones, which were dropped onto attackers by cutting the net
• slingshot; catapult

noun:

• (Japanese) mattress; underquilt; futon laid on the floor; sleeping mat Antonym: 掛蒲団

noun:

• Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895) - obscure term ➜ 日清戦争

adverb / ~と adverb:

• snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと
• (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと

noun:

• pot of chicken or seafood, and vegetables in a dashi broth, usu. cooked at the table (traditionally a winter meal); seafood and vegetable stew or chowder ➜ 寄せ

noun:

• rite seeing off the gods on their way to Izumo Shrine (held on the last night of the ninth lunar month and first night of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神迎え
• exorcism

noun / ~する noun:

• dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip
• going the long way round; making a detour

noun:

• jujitsu (classical Japanese martial art, usually referring to fighting without a weapon); jiujitsu; jujutsu

noun:

• water-filled bamboo tube in Japanese garden which clacks against a stone when emptied

noun:

• extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs)

noun:

• high-ranking noh actor ➜ 能太夫
• head of a school of noh performance
• high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period)
• jōruri narrator; manzai narrator ➜ 浄瑠璃・万歳【まんざい】
• female role actor in kabuki ➜ 女形
• low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine ➜ 御師
• lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) ［太夫］