expression / noun / ~する noun:

• eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld) ➜ 黄泉国【よもつくに】

noun:

• stroke of the brush; touch
• literary style

noun:

• new era or epoch

noun:

• furthest pine tree from a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

• foundation; base; basis

adverb:

• from the beginning; from the outset; by nature - often in negative contexts ➜ 元々

expression:

• through the grapevine; from a little bird; from tidings on the wind [literal]

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term ➜ 待婚期間

noun:

• Kentoku era (of the Southern Court) (1370.7.24-1372.4.?)

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving the mound; being knocked out - Baseball term ➜ 登板
• resigning from a role or position

noun:

• man from eastern Japan (esp. Edo or elsewhere in the Kanto region)

noun:

• split election (where two or more candidates from the same party stand)

noun:

• demon of the sixth heaven in the realm of desire who tries to prevent people from doing good - Buddhism term ➜ 四魔

noun:

• Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures
• Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)

noun:

• comparing autumn leaves to a garment
• layered garments that mimic the colours of autumn leaves (worn from the 9th to the 11th month of the lunar calendar)

expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

pronoun:

• that (indicating an item or person near the listener, the action of the listener, or something on their mind); it ➜ 何れ・此れ・彼【あれ】
• that time; then
• there (indicating a place near the listener) - archaism
• you - archaism

noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

suffix noun / noun:

• appearing ...; looking ... - usu. after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 様だ
• way to ...; method of ...ing - usu. after the -masu stem of a verb
• form; style; design - usu. after a noun
• like; similar to - usu. after a noun ➜ 様だ

noun:

• thing (thought or spoken)

noun:

• sense of enhanced value of a commodity or service (e.g. from quality, scarcity, etc.)

noun:

• banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage ➜ 白洲

noun:

• almanac of seasonal words (for haiku poets)

expression:

• early, superficial indications of spring (haiku term) ➜ 季語【きご】

noun:

• blood spilt from the body
• blood circulating within the body (often as a metaphor for strong emotion or hot-bloodedness)