noun:

• pilgrim's carry-all bag

expression / ichidan verb:

• to carry out a role

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

• to carry out a role ➜ 役割を演じる【やくわりをえんじる】

noun:

• lucky person; someone who made a lot of money (e.g. gambling or on the stock market)
• skilled batter; batter on a hot streak - Baseball term
• accident faker; someone who jumps in front of cars on purpose to extort money
• barbershop

adjectival noun / noun:

• hard (on the ears); offensive (to the ear); rasping; rough; harsh; grating; jarring; cacophonous

noun / ~する noun:

• mass for the dead; Buddhist service held on the anniversary of someone's death

noun / ~する noun:

• taking the podium; mounting the rostrum; going on stage to give a speech, etc.

noun:

• novel from the late Edo period focused on the love stories of ordinary townsfolk

noun:

• sleeping while on a sea voyage; falling asleep to the sound of the ocean

noun / ~の noun:

• according to (depending on) the mood of the moment; as one's fancy dictates - four character idiom

noun:

• Shinto shrine on Buddhist temple grounds dedicated to the tutelary deity of the area

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れ舞台

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings)

noun:

• form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing (brought to Japan in the Heian period) ➜ 宿曜

adverb:

• from now on; in the future; hereafter; ahead of us; down the road

noun:

• raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the summer cool

noun:

• warm sake (formerly drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar to ward off illness)

noun:

• the empress, the empress dowager and the grand empress dowager ➜ 三后
• emperor's second consort
• empress; palace of the empress
• building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground
• demesne of the imperial palace ➜ 皇居

noun:

• standing on the balls of the feet; unsteady step
• being unsettled; being restless; being ready to flee
• high volatility (in the market); severe fluctuation - Finance term

noun:

• custom of keeping a pumpkin or squash during the winter and eating it on the day of the winter solstice

noun:

• under the table; word of respect added to the addressee's name on a letter

adverb:

• in general; on the whole; for the most part; by and large; almost all

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れの舞台

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th) ➜ 祇園祭

noun:

• holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months - archaism