noun:

• police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site ➜ 地取り・聞き込み捜査

noun:

• prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning ➜ 孟母三遷の教え

noun:

• place on bridge passageway next to the rear of a noh stage - where the interlude kyogen actors wait ➜ 間狂言

noun:

• memorial ceremony held on the 100th day of a person's death - Buddhism term

noun:

• desire for a fire that comes with the cold of autumn

noun:

• mythological growth (tumour) that takes the shape of a human face

noun:

• thick roof shingle (1-3 cm thick, used for shrine buildings and noh stages) ➜ 栩葺き

noun:

• assembly of monks and laity (at a rite, sermon, etc.) - Buddhism term
• (monks and laity of) the Jishu sect - Buddhism term ➜ 時宗

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
• to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
• to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
• to spend (time); to live one's life
• to pass (down the line)
• to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名

noun:

• bowl of rice; single serving of rice
• bowl of rice placed by the pillow of the recently deceased

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

noun:

• newt (esp. the Japanese fire belly newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster)

noun:

• elm tree (esp. the Japanese elm, Ulmus davidiana var. japonica)

noun:

• fundamental tone in the traditional Japanese 12-tone scale (approx. D) - Music term ➜ 黄鐘【こうしょう】・十二律

noun:

• not folding on a stitch but placing the fold (2mm) deeper past the stitch, folding the excess back to cover the stitch

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard) - abbreviation ➜ 金鍔焼き
• metal sword guard; polearm - archaism

noun:

• blowing (e.g. of the wind)

noun / suffix noun:

• playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet)

noun:

• (pair of) bellows ➜ 吹子
• casting; founding; melting

noun / suffix:

• place; spot; scene; site - also pronounced どころ when a suffix
• address
• district; area; locality
• one's house
• point; aspect; side; facet ➜ いいとこ
• passage (in text); part
• space; room
• thing; matter

noun:

• whereupon; as a result - after the plain past form of a verb
• about to; on the verge of - after present form of a verb
• was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing - after past form of a verb

godan ~つ verb:

• to let a fox into the henhouse; to do something dangerous; to let loose a tiger in the marketplace [literal] - idiom

expression:

• in the middle of something; busy with something
• in commotion as a result of something untoward happening
• currently importing or capturing data

noun:

• qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)

noun:

• spine; line of the backbone
• seam down the back (of clothing)

noun:

• xun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: wind, southeast)