expression:

• harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; people may be offended (or not) by the way you speak - proverb

noun:

• law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation
• vinaya (rules for the monastic community) - Buddhism term
• Ritsu (school of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 律宗
• lushi (style of Chinese poem) - abbreviation ➜ 律詩
• (musical) pitch - also りち
• six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・呂
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) - abbreviation ➜ 律旋

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)

noun:

• high-ranking noh actor ➜ 能太夫
• head of a school of noh performance
• high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period)
• jōruri narrator; manzai narrator ➜ 浄瑠璃・万歳【まんざい】
• female role actor in kabuki ➜ 女形
• low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine ➜ 御師
• lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) ［太夫］

noun / ~の noun:

• tone-deafness; amusia; having no ear for music

adjectival noun:

• tone-deaf; off-key

suffix:

• having no sense (of something); being hopeless (when it comes to something)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to drag things out; to creep up slowly on the point; to strangle (execute) slowly with a silk cord (instead of quickly with a rope) [literal]

noun:

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

noun:

• conditions of a location; suitability of a location; convenience of a location

noun:

• small, cheap book in the style of a magazine - From English "handy mook" ➜ ムック

noun / ~の noun:

• the said (cabinet) minister

noun:

• in-phase (component of a wave)
• homeomorphism

noun:

• the nine principal points in a game of go

noun:

• rivalry for the heart of a woman ➜ 恋の鞘当て【こいのさやあて】
• quarrel over something trivial - from two samurai quarreling because the sheaths of their swords happened to touch

noun:

• gold-colored paper wrapped around the tip of a cigarette (coloured)

noun:

• a person whose services are at the disposal of another

noun:

• the mid-month's slate of entertainment in a variety hall

noun / ~する noun:

• looking down (from the heavens); visit of a high-ranking person

noun:

• flour paste cake in the form of a tube

noun:

• three special awards for wrestlers at the end of a tournament - Sumo term ➜ 殊勲賞・敢闘賞・技能賞

noun:

• ritual stomping in unison on the final day of a tournament - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• suddenly seeing the light; achieving full enlightenment all of a sudden - four character idiom

noun:

• game (contest) held in the presence of a lord (daimyo, shogun) - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• as a matter of fact; to tell the truth ➜ 実を言えば

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is) ➜ 見当がつかない

noun:

• focal point of a lens behind the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• theism (as refers to the existence of a personal Christian god) - obscure term ➜ 有神論

noun:

• building of a Shinto shrine complex built upon the highest ground