noun:

• break and run out in billiards (9 ball, 8 ball, etc.).

noun:

• locking technique in judo

noun:

• lady of the house

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be in a tizzy; to be in a frenzy; to have one's eyes light up; to have a different look in one's eyes

noun:

• student in a higher grade; upperclassman ➜ 下級生

noun:

• Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

noun:

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

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• throwing down multiple objects in succession - onomatopoeia ➜ ドサ
• at once in great numbers

expression:

• in sign of; in proof of

noun:

• fish, meat, and vegetables stewed in a thick, sweet sauce of soy sauce, sugar and mirin - Food term

noun:

• pink lady

adverb / ~する noun:

• being in shape; holding a dignified appearance - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• in history

noun:

• satellite in geosynchronous orbit

noun:

• conduct that is immoral and lacking in common sense - obscure term

noun:

• Failure to think of the long term leads to grief in the short term - four character idiom

noun:

• place where one spends the night to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction - the へ is pronounced as え in this word - archaism ➜ 方違え・方塞がり

noun:

• landing in the face of the enemy; opposed landing

noun:

• fish sliced open, seasoned with mirin, soy sauce, etc. and dried in the sun

noun:

• refreshing rain once in ten days

noun:

• picture-in-picture - IT term

noun:

• marriage in which the bride is taken into the groom's family; virilocal marriage

noun / ~する noun:

• being in Osaka

noun:

• maid in an Osaka brothel - archaism

noun:

• system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith