noun:

• compartment in a fishing boat with seawater for reviving or keeping alive fresh fish or bait

noun:

• being inseparable as a form and its shadow; a person's deed mirrors the good or evil of his mind; husband and wife being never apart - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• countryman; provincial; person from the country; provincial person; bumpkin; hick; hillbilly

noun:

• influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne

noun:

• cutting the threads on a loom

noun:

• person who achieves perfection; person who perfects (e.g. a theory)

noun:

• senior manager; director; person below the department head with responsibility for a particular area

noun:

• empathetically putting oneself in the place of a handicapped person - From English "cap handy"

noun:

• kan-on; Han reading; on reading of a kanji based on Tang dynasty Chinese ➜ 呉音【ごおん】・唐音【とうおん】

noun:

• person given as a reference; witness
• potential suspect; person of interest
• witness

noun:

• selecting an auspicious date by looking at the astrological information on the calendar; date selected in such a manner

noun:

• thin washer on either side of the guard (tsuba) of a sword
• (up to) the hilt; wits' end ➜ 切羽詰まる

expression:

• a wise man keeps some of his talents in reserve; one shouldn't show off; the person who knows most often says least; a skilled hawk hides its talons [literal] - proverb

noun:

• the real person; said person - archaism
• real thing; genuine article ［むざね］

prefix:

• honorific/polite/humble prefix - usu. before a term with a kun-yomi reading; おん is more formal - honorific language - polite language - humble language ➜ 御【ご】

noun:

• divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband) - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• killing one's catch on the spot (e.g. a bird)
• killing a fish immediately to preserve its freshness

noun:

• over-qualified person; over-educated person (unable to find a job); educational refugee [literal]

noun:

• speech-impaired person; person with a speech impediment; mute

noun:

• go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese ➜ 漢音【かんおん】・唐音【とうおん】・呉【ご】

expression / noun:

• heavenly voice ➜ 天声
• off the record instructions; influential person's opinion; powerful person's verdict - idiom

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

expression / noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit with a sacred wooden pole on the rump to ensure her fertility - obscure term ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒