noun / suffix noun:

• special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi) - archaism

noun:

• secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu - archaism ➜ 大宰府

noun:

• cylindrical candy made so that Kintaro's face appears wherever it is sliced ➜ 金太郎・金太郎

adjectival noun:

• inflexibly uniform; all the same; stamped out like cookies

noun:

• street performance in which the performer transforms a specially-made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem ➜ 南京【ナンキン】・簾【すだれ】

noun:

• business conditions; the market; economic activity; economic climate
• good (economic) times; prosperity; boom ➜ 好景気
• liveliness; energy; vigour; vigor; spirit

adverb:

• completely; absolutely; totally ➜ 一向に
• (not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least - in a negative sentence
• earnestly; intently; determinedly

noun:

• Jōdo Shinshū - abbreviation ➜ 一向宗

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• smallish; on the small side; somewhat small; undersized; small size ➜ 大振り

noun / ~する noun:

• short swing of a bat, racquet, etc.

noun:

• sliding feet; shuffling (one's feet)
• moving legs forward with feet never leaving the ground (exercise) - Sumo term

noun:

• deposit (e.g. on the purchase of a house); earnest money; guarantee money
• margin (payment); warrant money; cover

expression:

• man proposes, God disposes; man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa ➜ 寝殿造り・向拝

expression / adjective:

• feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong; feeling at a loss in the situation ➜ 身の置き所がない【みのおきどころがない】

expression:

• kome hyappyo; (ideal of) enduring pain today for the sake of a better tomorrow; hundred sacks of rice [literal] - idiom

noun:

• wife; Mrs; madam ［ふじん・はしかし］ - honorific language
• wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.) ［ふじん］ - archaism
• consort of the emperor ［ふじん・ぶにん］ - archaism

noun:

• old shop; shop of long standing

~の noun:

• well-established; first of the kind; veteran

expression / adjective:

• easy; trifling; harmless; of no concern; nothing
• nothing of the sort; not at all - in the form of ~でもなんでもない ➜ ではない

noun / ~の noun:

• eared seal (esp. the California sea lion, Zalophus californianus); sea lion ➜ 海豹

noun / ~する noun:

• following one's master into the grave; committing suicide after one's lord has died

noun / ~する noun:

• erection when waking in the morning; nocturnal penile tumescence; morning glory; morning wood
• early morning departure

noun / ~する noun:

• viewing and treating as one; regarding as the same; equating one thing with another; identification

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November)

expression / noun:

• skill learned in one's former days; using one's experience from the past - idiom

noun:

• Battle of Dan-no-ura; final battle of the Genpei War (1185)

noun:

• a country being in a state of universal peace; the world being peaceful and uneventful - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• looking aside while driving; taking one's eyes off the road ahead while driving - four character idiom

noun:

• game played as a form of punishment by the loser of a contest