noun:

• roundup of gangsters

noun:

• spring of sweet water - obscure term

noun:

• jack-of-all-trades; all-rounder; generalist
• general merchant; general store

noun:

• foreign residents of Japan; foreigners living in Japan

expression:

• very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day ➜ 三度の飯より好き【さんどのめしよりすき】

noun / ~する noun:

• bragging of one's misfortune

noun:

• born of the same mother; kindred spirits

noun:

• the mistake of a wise man

noun:

• flurry of snow in a clear sky
• winter wind which brings scattered snowflakes or raindrops
• skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever ➜ 風ほろし

noun:

• tenth month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term - obscure term ➜ 孟冬・神無月

noun:

• twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities

noun:

• one's history of love affairs with women - four character idiom

noun:

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

noun:

• video containing a slideshow of still images (usually of women) - From English "image video"

noun:

• made of knotted silk

noun:

• one's field of expertise; one's strong area - four character idiom

noun:

• paper sliding door for the cupboard of a tokonoma ➜ 袋棚

noun:

• double standard of morality

noun:

• row of houses

adverbial noun:

• each house; every house

noun:

• subject of research

noun:

• expression of one's feelings; pouring out one's heart - four character idiom

noun:

• speaking fondly of

noun:

• top of the foot; instep; dorsum of the foot; dorsum pedis

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

noun:

• thinly sliced and dried strips of daikon