Results, langage used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
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- ピントがずれる・ピントがズれる Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to be out of focus ➜ ずれる
- to be off the point (e.g. of a plan); to have not got the point
- 論旨不明【ろんしふめい】 Inflection
noun / adjectival noun:
- the point of an argument being unclear; the tenor of an argument being poorly reasoned - four character idiom
- 役者子供【やくしゃこども】
noun:
- skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom
- child kabuki actor - orig. meaning - archaism
- いざという時【いざというとき】いざと言う時
expression:
- when it's important; when it comes to the crunch; when push comes to shove; when it comes to the point; in one's hour of need; at the critical moment ➜ いざ
- 縁側☆【えんがわ】椽側
noun:
其の日は一日淋しいペンの音を聞いて暮した。其の間には折々千代々々と云う声も聞えた。文鳥も淋しいから鳴くのではなかろうかと考えた。然し縁側へ出て見ると、二本の留り木の間を、彼方へ飛んだり、此方へ飛んだり、絶間なく行きつ戻りつしている。少しも不平らしい様子はなかった。 I spent that day listening to the lonely scrapings of a pen. During that time, from time to time, I heard a Java sparrow twittering. It occurred to me that maybe Java sparrows twitter out of loneliness too. I walked out to the veranda to see. Nevertheless, flying to and fro between two perches busily and incessantly, it did not show the slightest hint of grievance.
- 二十五史【にじゅうごし】
noun:
- Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan) ➜ 二十四史
- 冷え込む☆【ひえこむ】 Inflection
godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:
- to get (much) colder; to deepen (cold)
- to feel cold (of the body); to be chilled to the bones
- to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.)
- 屈辱の日【くつじょくのひ】
noun:
- day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)
- 左側通行【ひだりがわつうこう】
noun:
- driving on the left side of the road; driving on the left-hand side of the road; left-hand side driving ➜ 右側通行
- 翻弄☆【ほんろう】飜弄 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- trifling with; toying with; playing with; making sport of; making fun of; leading around by the nose
- tossing about (a ship)
- ハレーション
noun:
- halation (i.e. in photography, a halo-effect when additional light leaks out around the subject)
- ニュートン式望遠鏡【ニュートンしきぼうえんきょう】
noun:
- Newtonian telescope (having a secondary mirror at 45 degrees, reflecting light into the eyepiece)
- 年度末【ねんどまつ】
noun:
- end of the fiscal year; end of the school year
自動車の売れ行きは年度末に後退しました。 Automobile sales suffered a setback at the end of the financial year.
- 不二【ふじ】
noun:
- being two sides of the same coin; being the same (while appearing different)
expression:
- Very sincerely yours ➜ 不一
~の noun / noun:
- peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled - orig. meaning - archaism
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