noun:

• traditional work song of Hokkaido herring fishery workers, performed by school students in modern choreographed interpretations

noun:

• stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist) - Kantō dialect

noun:

• allotted rice field (ritsuryo system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government - archaism

noun:

• child from an earlier wife ➜ 後腹【あとばら】
• preceding one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku) ［さきばら］ ➜ 追い腹

noun / ~する noun:

• conclusion; execution (of a contract); entering (into treaty)
• fastening (as in a joint)

noun / ~する noun:

• choosing a site (e.g. for industry); deciding on a location

noun:

• standpoint; position

temporal noun / adverbial noun:

• moment; a (short) time; a while
• former times ［ひととき］
• two-hour period - archaism

noun:

• (professional) driver (of a taxi, train, etc.); motorman
• mate (on a ship); officer ➜ 航海士

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• dimly; faintly; with a faint light
• warmly; friendly; in a heartwarming manner - esp. とした

noun:

• thick illustrated publication on a single topic printed to look like a magazine - from "magazine" and "book" - From English "mook"

noun:

• "gentleman" who escorts a woman home, only to make a pass at her

noun / ~する noun:

• offering a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god

noun / ~する noun:

• stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others

noun:

• public bathhouse
• building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple)

noun:

• hairstyle of Meiji and Taisho era, featuring a bun resembling a halved peach

noun:

• approach (to a castle gate)
• front of a structural member ➜ 見込み【みこみ】

noun:

• nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine

expression:

• to have a comeback (i.e. a reason, or rationalization) for every remark - idiom

noun:

• clasp or ring for attaching a pendant to a chain

particle:

• a sort of thing like; used after a phrase to modify the following noun

expression:

• the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat - proverb ➜ 三十六計

noun:

• alms-giver; person who donates to a monk or a temple; dana-pati

noun:

• drawing a dish towards oneself using one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• corpus delicti (concrete evidence of a crime, e.g. a bullet-riddled body)

noun:

• having a small mouth; eating only a little - female language
• topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) ➜ 持子
• barracuda ➜ 梭魚