noun:

• castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord

noun:

• playing an entire composition without break; continually playing (in the background of a melody)

noun:

• arrow with a whistle attached; whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle ➜ 嚆矢

noun:

• nail hider; nailhead cover; decorative object which conceals the head of a nail - Architecture term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to consider (all the circumstances); to bear (a number of things) in mind

noun:

• Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to wet the lips of a dying person; to attend someone's last moments

noun:

• member of a (school) club who does not partake in the club's activities - humorous term ➜ 帰宅部

expression:

• poverty is a stranger to industry; diligence is the mother of good fortune - proverb

noun:

• people's history (written for the king of China; usu. written as a novel) ➜ 稗官

noun:

• torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

noun:

• record of information about a Buddhist statue (usu. an inconspicuous inscription on the statue)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be born (of a baby); to come into the world

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 御殿女中

noun:

• small wooden door at the rear of a noh stage
• small garden gate ➜ 小門

expression:

• a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course

noun:

• rice paddy with a thick layer of mud at the bottom; muddy rice field

expression / adjective:

• (after the ren'yōkei form of a verb) indicates concession or compromise ➜ てもいい
• indicates permission ➜ てもいい

noun:

• anomaly; angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen from the sun - Astronomy term

noun:

• deutomerite; posterior sac; posterior chamber - Medicine term
• women's quarters at the rear of a house

expression / adverb:

• just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; in the time it takes to say "ah!" [literal]

noun:

• Chinese yam (variety of Dioscorea opposita)
• Japanese yam (variety of Dioscorea japonica)

noun:

• circumference; outskirts; environs; around; in the area of; in the vicinity of
• (computer) peripheral - IT term

noun:

• the Seven Wise Men (of Confucius's Analects) ➜ 七賢人
• Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove ➜ 竹林の七賢

noun:

• the whole enormous extent of Edo; from one side of Edo to the other - four character idiom