noun:

• ridged wooden bench used in SM practices (and in the Edo period for torturing female prisoners)

noun:

• dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district

noun:

• juvenile Japanese sea perch (usu. 2-3 years in age and 40-60 cm in length) ➜ 鱸

noun:

• earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Han-dynasty China) - archaism

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the East; Tang-period Chinese office established in Pyongyang in 668 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the West; Tang-period Chinese office established in Xinjiang in 640 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• favourable position (esp. in horse racing, e.g. in 3rd to 5th place during a race) - abbreviation ➜ 好位置

noun:

• delivery service where package is left in front of door or in designated area; safe drop

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to include (in a group or scope)
• to instruct; to make one understand
• to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication)
• to put in (someone's) mouth
• to permeate with flavor

noun:

• marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese

noun:

• stage assistant dressed in black (in kabuki); stagehand; prompter
• behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller

noun:

• period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92)

adverb:

• suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove) - onomatopoeia
• in a single gulp; in one go - onomatopoeia

noun:

• spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures - four character idiom

expression:

• small mercy (from some misfortune); silver lining of a dark cloud; consolation in sadness; blessing in disguise

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the North; Tang-period Chinese office established in Inner Mongolia in 669 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Protectorate General of the Western Regions; Han-period Chinese office established in East Turkestan in 60 BCE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Protectorate General of the Central Asian Nomadic Lands; Chinese office established in Inner Mongolia in 650 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• SuperBall scooping; festival game in which one scoops up rubber bouncy balls floating in water ➜ 金魚掬い

expression / noun:

• fiscal cliff; sharp decline in the United States budget deficit that could have occurred beginning in 2013

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spit in the wind; to piss in the wind; to get caught in your own trap; to reap what you sow; to turn to the sky and spit [literal] - idiom ➜ 天に唾する【てんにつばする】

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to spit in the wind; to piss in the wind; to get caught in your own trap; to reap what you sow; to turn to the sky and spit [literal] - idiom

noun:

• ground; land; earth; soil - abbreviation
• the region in question; the local area
• skin
• texture; fabric; material; weave
• base; background
• one's true nature
• narrative (i.e. descriptive part of a story)
• real life; actuality
• captured territory (in the game of go)
• noh chorus ➜ 地謡
• accompaniment music (in Japanese dance)
• basic phrase (in Japanese music; usu. repetitive)
• base part (of multiple shamisens)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to accidentally be visible (in a play, TV show, etc.)
• to be partly cut off (in a photo, video, etc.); to be partly in the frame

adjectival noun / adverb / noun:

• direct; in person; frankness; honesty; simplicity; cheerfulness; correctness; being straight
• night duty; shift (e.g. in a factory) ➜ 当直