noun:

• Asian stubtail (bird), Urosphena squameiceps; family of birds (stubtails), Urosphena, including the Asian stubtail, the Timor stubtail, etc.

noun:

• female student or graduate of Waseda University
• woman who allegedly pursues a career at the expense of love, feminine interests, etc. - derogatory term

noun:

• (Edo-period variety of) realistic literature; popular stories of everyday life in the Edo period

noun:

• interpretation of dreams; dream reading; oneirocriticism; oneiroscopy
• The Interpretation of Dreams (book by Sigmund Freud, 1900)

noun:

• head and body

suffix:

• heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long - after a number

noun:

• Ise Shinto (school of Shinto established the Watarai family priests of Ise Jingu's Outer Shrine)

noun:

• modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)

noun:

• by virtue of one's office; in the nature of one's duties

expression:

• crazy deed; unbelievable deed; the height of madness; act of sheer madness - colloquialism

noun:

• folding paper-case; kimono wrapping paper
• paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony) ➜ 懐紙【かいし】

noun:

• year-end bonus; bonus salary given at the end of the year

noun:

• Murakumo no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia) - obscure term ➜ 天叢雲剣

noun:

• beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥諷詠
• artistic pursuits involving nature themes

noun:

• deepest level (of an art, skill, etc.); secret teachings; mysteries; innermost secrets; the secret (of success, etc.)

noun:

• 10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November); late autumn; late fall ➜ 小春日和

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen [literal] - proverb ➜ 一円を笑う者は一円に泣く・一銭

noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

noun:

• left skirt of a kimono
• geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono) ➜ 芸妓

noun:

• morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 企業短期経済観測調査【きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• dyeing of degummed silk; dyeing of raw silk at the same time as degumming

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one yen will cry at one yen [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one
• to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor - orig. meaning