noun:

• hand used like a sword in striking

noun / ~の noun:

• desire to act only in one's self-interest; selfish desires - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime - four character idiom

noun:

• practice book used in jōruri and nagauta

noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

noun:

• women in the sciences; female scientists ➜ 理系女

expression / noun:

• in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances

noun:

• costume for women serving in the inner palace (Heian period) - archaism

adverb / noun:

• in all ages; since antiquity - four character idiom

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧

noun:

• posture in which the legs are firmly planted (in sumo and judo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term

adverb:

• in all ages; over the ages; forever and ever ➜ いつの時代も

noun:

• indulging in every possible luxury - four character idiom

noun:

• hemorrage in the fundus of the eye

noun:

• offerings of rope, paper, etc. hung on trees in Shinto shrines

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "nu"; "na" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• in-car announcement (on a train); PA system on a train

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

noun:

• being frozen in ice

noun:

• number of days spent in hospital

noun:

• dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to haul in (e.g. rope, net, etc.); to pull in; to attract (e.g. stares)

noun:

• chanting sutras in front of a shoryodana (of a monk during the Bon Festival) ➜ 精霊棚【しょうりょうだな】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to remain in memory (of sounds and words); to linger in one's ears