noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures

noun:

• always conducting oneself as though one were on a battlefield; being combat ready at all times (of a person) - four character idiom

noun:

• eta (Edo period) ➜ 穢多
• administrator of a temple - Buddhism term ➜ 座主・別当・検校
• low-ranking government official with a comparatively high salary (in medieval China) - archaism

noun:

• territory of a stall vendor
• spot on a farm where the harvest would be put in order (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• small private school (esp. for cramming)
• private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)

noun:

• shallow clogs (worn by nobles; originally made of leather, later made of black lacquered paulownia)

noun:

• wealth, prosperity, and arrogant splendor (splendour); (living sumptuously) intoxicated by wealth and power; luxury - four character idiom

noun:

• the privy purse; the money used for private purposes by the members of the Imperial family

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross)

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross) ➜ 赤菱

noun:

• Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)

noun:

• Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• textbook approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; government-approved textbook

noun:

• Panjandrum; The Great Panjandrum (rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during WW2)

noun:

• dharma mandala (in Shingon); mandala were each deity is represented by its seed syllable in Sanskrit - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

noun / ~する noun:

• acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
• handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
• handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

noun:

• publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)

noun:

• in a day; in a brief space of time - four character idiom

noun:

• pulling out of a market; withdrawing from a market

noun:

• exegesis; explanation of a text; commentary on a text

noun:

• godown within a compound; warehouse within a building complex - obscure term

noun:

• hilt (of a sword); haft (of a dagger); handgrip

noun:

• crown (of a watch); stem
• cannon (of a bell)

noun:

• rumour of a love affair; talk of a romance

noun:

• switch (of a railroad); points (of a railway) ➜ ポイント