noun:

• geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) - colloquialism ➜ 辰巳芸者

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮

noun:

• dissolution of the lower house of parliament ➜ 衆議院解散【しゅうぎいんかいさん】

noun:

• committee of the National Diet

noun:

• ban on entering a building, venue, etc. - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 出入り禁止【でいりきんし】

noun:

• His Majesty the Emperor; the present emperor; the reigning emperor - abbreviation ➜ 今上天皇【きんじょうてんのう】・今上陛下【きんじょうへいか】

noun:

• Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

noun:

• person fallen sick by the wayside

noun / ~の noun:

• the Amazon river
• Amazon (woman of Greek mythology)

noun:

• work hakama for use in the snow ➜ 山袴

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius) [literal] - variant of 木に縁りて... - proverb ➜ 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】

noun:

• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - obscure term ➜ 国連海洋法条約

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

noun:

• bales forming the edge of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• air suspension; air spring

noun:

• rising of the tide; a beginning

noun:

• year of the dog

expression:

• even the patience of a saint eventually runs out; (if you touch) the Buddha's face three times (he will get annoyed) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• fiber to the home

noun / ~の noun:

• within the earth's atmosphere; inner space

noun:

• on par (in golf, meeting par for that hole) - From English "par on"

noun:

• offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

expression:

• with the skin on; skin and all (fruit, potato, etc.) ➜ 共【ごと】

expression:

• bringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited - proverb - Buddhism term