noun:

• rice ball wrapped in pickled leaf mustard greens ➜ 高菜・目を見張る

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have the end in sight; to see the mountains [literal] - idiom

noun:

• novel written in epistolary style

noun:

• 2nd in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 2nd note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• in a bag or one's purse

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 / ~する noun:

• living in tranquility; retiring to the countryside

noun:

• retirement house

expression:

• have a pain in one's chest

noun:

• break in the snow; patch of ground not covered in snow

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in disorder; to have stuff lying scattered around ➜ 取り散らかる

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the fields; working on a farm

noun:

• defence in depth; multiple safeguard; multiple protection

expression:

• in a word; to put it briefly; to make a long story short ➜ 早く言えば

noun:

• female servant who works in the kitchen ➜ 水仕事

noun:

• bonito caught in autumn - obscure term

godan ~く verb:

• to be absorbed in a play

noun:

• Nobel Prize in Literature

noun:

• government office in charge of court music (ritsuryo period) ➜ 雅楽・律令

expression:

• something so difficult that one doesn't know if there's even a 1 in 1000 chance of success - obscure term

noun:

• thawing of the ground in spring - archaism

noun:

• educational facility established in affiliation with a government agency

noun:

• bamboo screen still in place in autumn - obscure term

expression / noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death ➜ 丑の刻参り

noun:

• add-in software - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• traffic network extending in all directions - four character idiom