noun:

• Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised)

noun:

• drink made of boiled water poured over preserved cherry leaves and blossoms

noun:

• hana awase (type of hanafuda game) ➜ 花札
• flower-comparing contest (Heian period) ➜ 花競べ

expression / adjective:

• overly concerned with domestic affairs; having an air of domesticity

noun:

• dancing girl (end of the Heian period) - archaism
• prostitute
• tempo in gagaku ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• one full game (consisting of east, south, west, and north rounds) - Mahjong term - From Chinese "yizhuang" ➜ 半荘

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

noun:

• older brother - honorific language

pronoun:

• you (in ref. to male of greater age or status) - epistolary style - honorific language ➜ 小弟

noun:

• spinning top (traditionally made of Japanese babylon shell)

noun:

• strict observance of the Buddhist commandment that all priests should be celibate

noun:

• Panamax (maximum size of ship that can pass through the Panama Canal)

noun:

• game or series of games between the first and second place teams - Sports term

noun:

• very small amount of money; penny; cent; nickel; dime

noun / ~する noun:

• otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense - usu. used adjectivally as 浮世離れした

noun:

• administrative reform proposal, involving integration of prefectures into 7 or 9 states

noun:

• Yokozuna Deliberation Committee; body that recommends promotion of wrestlers to grand champions - Sumo term

noun:

• slapping hands in front of the opponent's face to confuse him - Sumo term

noun:

• hypothetical rule allowing match-ups between wrestlers regardless of their stable affiliation - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the first round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the second round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the third round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• hiba false arborvitae (species of cypress, Thujopsis dolabrata)

noun:

• photograph of two people, usu. male and female - From English "two shot"

noun:

• practice of eating sushi or sashimi off an unclad woman's body

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• being full of vitality (energy); vigorous and in high spirits - four character idiom