noun:

• old boy; alumnus; OB ➜ オールドボーイ
• out-of-bounds

noun:

• fact; (a) truth
• realistic portrayal of an ordinary event (by a wise man) ［じつごと］ - in kabuki

noun:

• palace examination (national Chinese civil servant examination based largely on classic literature); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 科挙
• examination for promotion in the Ministry of Ceremonies (based largely on political duties and Chinese classics); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 式部省

noun:

• kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times ➜ 七変化【しちへんげ】
• the seven common disguises of ninja

noun:

• wish; hope; petition; request
• object of an application; intent of a request - orig. meaning

noun:

• Japan - archaism ➜ 八洲
• eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke & Shimotsuke) ➜ 関八州

expression / adjective:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) - idiom
• having an earache; feeling pain in one's ear

noun / ~の noun:

• protruding eyes
• number of pips visible after a throw of the dice

noun:

• not knowing one's bearings; being disorientated
• itinerant monk; pilgrim

noun:

• temple kitchen; monastery kitchen - Buddhism term
• quarters of a head priest (and his family) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing snow down a mountain
• removing snow from the roof of a house

noun:

• someone who has a title but no real duty; useless person ➜ 取り巻き
• actor playing a daimyo who merely sets the scene as part of the background (in kabuki) - original meaning ➜ 大名

noun:

• first year (college) student; freshman - Kansai dialect ➜ 一年生
• graduate of one year's standing

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change (lower-body clothing: shoes, slippers, pants, a skirt, etc.) ➜ 着替える
• to put on the wrong pair of shoes by mistake ➜ 履き違える

noun / ~する noun:

• impressed (glued) gold or silver foil on traditional Japanese fabric
• type of noh costume

noun:

• 1 kin (~0.6kg)
• 1 loaf of bread

noun:

• beriberi ➜ 脚気【かっけ】

noun / ~する noun / ~と adverb:

• tearing off something stuck on the surface of something else (e.g. duct tape) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus
• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being) ［しゃち］ - abbreviation ➜ 鯱【しゃちほこ】

noun:

• mountain hare (Lepus timidus); blue hare; tundra hare; variable hare; white hare; alpine hare
• hare made of snow

noun:

• closing mid-way
• taking a break mid-way through an event, sometimes with ceremonial hand-clapping

noun:

• true ancestor
• var. of vampire (in fiction)

noun:

• late autumn (fall)
• ninth month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term ➜ 長月

noun:

• breast
• rounded part on the upper end of shamisen neck

adverb / ~する noun:

• cool sensation from passing air; cool and refreshing (aftertaste) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sound of air leaking; sound of a sleeper's breath

noun / ~する noun:

• outlined; lacking content
• getting rid of the middleman