noun / ~する noun:

• explanation in common language

noun:

• oval tub or tray used in fish shops

noun:

• type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

noun:

• infirm of purpose and lacking in decision - four character idiom

noun:

• private constitutional drafts prepared before the adoption of the Meiji Constitution in 1889

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun:

• stay in hospital; hospital stay

noun:

• lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods

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