noun:

• three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing) ➜ 落ち【おち】

noun:

• bronze wind bells hanging from eaves of temple towers or halls (esp. four corners) - archaism
• wind bell; wind chimes - archaism

noun:

• wedgie (to a girl) i.e. pulling up the underwear from the back, driving it into the vulva - vulgar

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to run past from behind; to run through (e.g. gate, one's mind)

expression / noun:

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

noun:

• even pitch; accentless pitch; Japanese pitch accent pattern with no drop from high to low pitch

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• happy trail (line of hair from the navel to the genitals); pubic hair

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a good eye (from having seen fine art, etc.); to be a connoisseur ➜ 肥える

noun:

• Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant)
• paper made from the fibre of this plant - abbreviation ➜ 雁皮紙

noun:

• Indian Ocean mimic surgeonfish (Acanthurus tristis, species of tang from the Indian Ocean)

noun:

• type of fast military boat used from the Warring states period until the Edo period - archaism

noun:

• semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths

noun:

• retired husband syndrome; stress syndrome resulting from one's husband being at home

noun / ~する noun:

• generation-to-generation instruction from master to disciple - four character idiom

noun:

• taxi equipped with a meter (from "meter taxi") - obscure term

expression:

• the greatest hate proceeds from the greatest love - proverb

noun:

• rising intonation; upward inflection
• rising (sales, tendency, etc.); getting better; improvement
• feet-first somersault hanging from the horizontal bar ➜ 逆上がり

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• slender unicorn (Naso minor, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from Mozambique to the Philippines); blackspine unicornfish; little unicorn

noun:

• short arched (traditionally bamboo) fence around walls of traditional townhouses, esp. in Kyoto (protects lower walls from fouling or damage)

noun:

• full flush; winning hand containing only tiles of one suit - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• homogeneity (e.g. manuf. using products from one source)

noun:

• poor who do not (or are unable to) seek help (from relatives or the authorities, etc.) - From English "silent poor"