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:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do one's best; to do something to the best of one's ability

noun:

• (being in) the red; deficit Antonym: 黒字
• red letter; red writing
• corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red

noun:

• ancient document; archives; ancient manuscript; paleograph
• document addressed to someone in particular (jargon used in paleography) ➜ 文書【ぶんしょ】

noun:

• taking delight in elegant pursuits; being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• kokedama; moss ball; plant grown in a ball of soil covered in moss, held together with string

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be rich in; to abound in; to be abundant in; to be full of
• to be rich; to be wealthy

~する verb (spec.):

• to lose (money, etc.)
• to have wasted one's (time, etc.); to have one's efforts come to naught

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)

expression:

• out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den [literal] - proverb

noun / suffix noun:

• tuck (e.g. in a dress) ➜ 縫い揚げ【ぬいあげ】

noun:

• rise (e.g. in price) ［上げ］ Antonym: 下げ

suffix noun:

• shop; factory; mill; works (as in ironworks); plant (as in manufacturing plant)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to find oneself in deep trouble; to be deep in the shit ➜ 土壺【どつぼ】

expression:

• out with the demon, in with fortune; devils out, good luck in - recital chanted on Setsubun during the bean-scattering ceremony ➜ 豆まき・節分

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be lost in thought; to be immersed in reverie

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age - abbreviation ➜ 数え年【かぞえどし】

noun:

• scattering
• leaflets - esp. チラシ - usually written using kana alone
• sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top - abbreviation ➜ 散らし寿司
• writing in an irregular hand - abbreviation ➜ 散らし書き

noun:

• muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)
• lump (in tissue, esp. breast); swelling; hardening; lesion ［しこり］ - Medicine term
• lingering discomfort; uneasiness; bad aftertaste; unpleasant feeling ［しこり］

noun:

• kamaboko; steamed seasoned fish paste, usu. in a semicylindrical shape on a strip of wood and sliced to go in soup, etc. - Food term

noun:

• streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies) - archaism
• being in great demand

noun:

• method of dyeing, developed in Okinawa, in which a single stencil is used to produce richly polychromatic designs; traditional dyed cloth from Okinawa

noun:

• white sandbar; white sandbank
• area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles
• gravel separating a Noh stage from the audience
• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism ➜ お白州