noun:

• merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period ➜ 文化文政時代

noun:

• dance originating in Kochi Prefecture using "naruko" - from 夜さり来い ➜ 鳴子

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be in opposition; to be in private life

expression:

• starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught - proverb ➜ 泥縄【どろなわ】・泥縄式【どろなわしき】

expression / noun:

• fish in a pot about to be boiled; "person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger" [figurative]

noun:

• study of plants, minerals, and animals for use in Chinese medicine; herbalism; pharmacognosy

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to eat something for the first time in the season

noun:

• written in red ink

ichidan verb:

• to put something in the wrong place; to misplace

noun:

• ability in the bedroom; art of lovemaking

noun:

• drying in the shade

noun:

• editor-in-chief

noun:

• small, cheap book in the style of a magazine - From English "handy mook" ➜ ムック

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to spend one's days in tears and sorrow

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

• to be in common; to have in common
• to be in mutually understood
• to be mutually connected; to have a link

noun:

• final cut severing a wrestler's top-knot in his retirement ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.

noun:

• desertion in the face of the enemy; deserting under enemy fire

noun:

• clouds in the sky

noun:

• love of a knight for a courtly lady (upon which he is unable to act) - From German "Minne"

noun:

• women in the sciences; female scientists - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 理系女子【りけいじょし】

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun:

• squid chopped, salted and mixed in its own ink

noun:

• ode in reply

noun:

• doorman in charge of footwear