particle:

• endorsing and questioning the preceding statement - sentence ending particle
• lamenting reflections on the preceding statement - sentence ending particle

noun:

• odds and ends

noun:

• location where spirits and ghosts allegedly often appear; haunted place

noun:

• priest who was also a street performer and performed prayers and other religious duties for the sake of other people

noun:

• small fence to keep out people and horses

expression:

• ladies and gentlemen!; roll up, roll up!

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to spend one's days in tears and sorrow

noun:

• Japanese mutton and vegetable dish

expression:

• knock, and it shall be opened unto you; God answers prayers - from Matthew 7:7 - proverb

noun:

• mark-and-recapture method - Biology term

noun:

• discreet and well-advised judgment; wise and mature judgment; making judgment with prudence - four character idiom

noun:

• wild grasses and flowers (esp. as objects of beauty)

noun:

• benefit and protection of the law; interests protected by law; legal benefit

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:

• spoon and chopsticks

noun:

• love and hate

noun:

• squid chopped, salted and mixed in its own ink

noun:

• (historical) regulations governing Chinese religious observances and social order

noun:

• var. of mochi made from a mixture of rice flour and sweet bean paste (famous product of Kagoshima)

noun:

• Russia and France

ichidan verb:

• to starve and freeze to death

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism - four character idiom

noun:

• sexual position where the man lies flat on his back and the woman sits on top; cowgirl position - vulgar

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• bold and unrestrained; daring and unfettered - four character idiom

noun:

• soba with various vegetables, seafood, and meat