noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. visiting a shrine or temple a hundred times for prayer, walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time) ➜ 御百度

noun:

• first day of cherry blossoms reaching full bloom; first day in which at least 80% of the somei yoshino cherry blossom has opened (in a specific region or place)

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to experience chest pain; to have a pain in one's chest
• to feel sick at heart; to have one's heart ache; to be anguished

noun / ~の noun:

• imperial lands; lands blessed by the emperor's reign ➜ 化外

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get a lump in one's throat; to overflow with feelings; to be overwhelmed with emotion ➜ 胸一杯

noun:

• residential building in which the first floor is occupied by businesses

noun:

• books printed in Japan by the Jesuits (1590-1612)

noun:

• sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 鎌髭

noun / ~の noun:

• eastern direction
• the Orient

noun:

• eastern fighter in a match (e.g. sumo wrestling) ［ひがしかた・ひがしがた］ - Martial Arts term

suffix:

• through; throughout; in the course of
• all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

noun:

• cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive (drastic) measure; cutting the (Gordian) knot - four character idiom

noun:

• reader (person)
• person who reads the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 取り手
• composer (of a poem) - also written as 詠み手 ➜ 詠み手【よみて】

noun:

• partner (esp. in manzai); companion ［相方］ ➜ 漫才
• partner for the night (e.g. at a brothel)

noun:

• main menu in a restaurant, as opposed to the lunchtime menu

noun:

• headliner
• latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed) ➜ 初座

noun:

• Nebrius; genus of a single species of nurse shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae

noun:

• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) - obscure term ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• outer-rise earthquake; earthquake in the region seaward of a deep-sea trench

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

noun:

• shot (in films)
• shot (of alcohol)
• hitting a ball (e.g. in tennis)

noun / ~する noun:

• shoot (in basketball)

expression:

• the word of a wise man is worth the words of one thousand fools; one thousand chirps of sparrows, one cry of a crane [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• showing by a diagram; illustrating; representing graphically

noun:

• inexpensive hotel operated by a local government

noun:

• sports competition sponsored by a business enterprise