noun:

• long hair style popular in the Genroku era

noun:

• competent in all fields; jack of all trades; very active in many fields; versatile; all-round; 8 faces and 6 arms [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• female narrator in a silent movie theatre

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to rise in rank

noun:

• collectively, the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election ➜ 小泉チルドレン

noun:

• in-house

noun:

• having furigana on all kanji in a document

noun:

• young mottled spinefoot pickled in salt (usu. served on tofu) - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ 藍子

noun / ~する noun:

• adhering or embedding of wear debris in the opposing surface

noun:

• residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period) ➜ 与力・同心

expression:

• views in and around the city of Kyoto (paintings and drawings) ➜ 図・洛中洛外

noun:

• area covered in volcanic ash

godan ~く verb:

• to write in the square style

noun:

• Japanese living in America

noun:

• Buddhist missionary, esp. in Jodo, Pure Land, etc. sects; Buddhist minister (in the West)

expression:

• a bad person does not deserve to die in his own bed - proverb

expression:

• in contrast; on the contrary; on the other hand

expression:

• in order to ➜ ために

noun:

• cache plug-in - IT term

noun:

• juvenile delinquents roaming about the city in groups - From English "teamer"

noun:

• being in a towering rage; boiling with rage - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• broad-minded and free in disposition; large-hearted and not scrupulous about trifles - four character idiom

noun:

• position at the imperial court in ancient China - abbreviation ➜ 内閣大学士

noun:

• reading Chinese in the Japanese order

noun:

• street performance in which the performer transforms a specially-made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem ➜ 南京【ナンキン】・簾【すだれ】