noun:

• aucha perch (Coreoperca kawamebari)

noun:

• Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha (5th c. BCE?) ➜ お釈迦様【おしゃかさま】

noun:

• first-rate sword

noun:

• large ditch - obscure term

noun:

• kitchen maid - archaism ➜ お三【おさん】
• kitchen duties; cooking - archaism ➜ お三【おさん】

noun:

• bottom; buttocks - polite language

noun:

• head steward (of an estate)

adverb:

• generously; unsparingly; lavishly

noun:

• great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus)

noun:

• call; visit - polite language ➜ 伺い【うかがい】
• inquiry; enquiry; question - polite language ➜ 伺い【うかがい】

noun:

• acoustical design

noun:

• Emperor doll (in display with Empress doll)

noun:

• dog apparition; fantastic dog-like creature

noun:

• emergency or temporary measure

noun:

• euphonic change form - Linguistics term

noun:

• buying; purchasing - honorific language ➜ 買い上げ

noun:

• request

expression:

• pleased to make your acquaintance (formal phrase used on first meeting someone to encourage them to remember you)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be in a miserable state; to be down and out

godan ある verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to come; to go; to be (somewhere) - honorific language
• -ing - after the -te form of a verb

noun:

• yellow dog contract (employment contract which forbids the employee to join a labor union)

godan ~ぶ verb:

• to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind

noun:

• greater sand plover (Charadrius leschenaultii)

noun:

• driving out evil spirits (on New Year's eve) ➜ 追儺

noun:

• rank; line