noun:

• form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)

noun:

• reporter assigned to cover a particular person in order to get the most up-to-date information; beat reporter

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to talk in one's sleep

noun:

• Lady Luck

noun:

• icecream cone popular in Akita Prefecture - from 婆 and 箆

noun:

• sudden fall in stock prices; stock market crash

noun:

• martial arts school situated in a town

noun / ~する noun:

• borrowing in advance

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• ashamed deep down in one's heart; blushing with shame when one remembers something - four character idiom

expression:

• "rat in a trap" [figurative]; "trapped rat" [figurative]; rat in a bag [literal]

noun:

• one kanji in the name of a nobleperson (with a multiple-kanji name) ➜ 偏諱を賜う

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be caught in a trap (snare, etc.)
• to fall for (a trick, ambush, etc.)

noun:

• special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels ➜ 石帯

noun:

• waiting list (waiting for a cancellation)

noun:

• vegetables boiled in miso - Food term

noun:

• moon shining in a rain-cleansed sky

expression / adjective:

• comfortable to live in

noun:

• break in contact; not hearing from; having no communication with - four character idiom

noun:

• diligence in studying (e.g. continuing to study even in such poor light as offered by a firefly or that reflected by snow); diligent study

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• in the dark

noun:

• formal noh performed in full costume ➜ 袴能

noun:

• quantity or value of goods laid in

noun:

• San-in region of western Honshu (incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures)