noun:

• block votes (e.g. of a labor union, labour union)

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

noun / ~する noun:

• rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power; gathering strength

expression / noun:

• bending from the hips with the legs straight and head nearly to the ground; deep forward bow

noun:

• flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words - four character idiom

noun:

• principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol
• the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter - humorous term

noun:

• arrowhead
• target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack)
• the very moment (when); the point (of doing) ➜ 矢先に

noun:

• dumplings offered to the moon (on the 15th day of the 8th month and the 13th day of the 9th month)

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

noun:

• silken tofu; soft tofu

noun:

• person at a public bath in charge of heating the water and filling the baths

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

noun:

• principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol
• the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter - humorous term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

noun:

• kindling burned in shrines and temples - archaism
• special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year) - archaism
• kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryo period - archaism

noun:

• young underground market (the underground economy in goods and services, involving lots of barter and buying and selling of secondhand goods)

noun:

• small tatami room
• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 放ち出
• room smaller than four and a half tatami (in tea ceremony)

expression:

• only a hero can understand a hero; swallows and sparrows can't understand the aspirations of phoenixes and swans [literal] - proverb - four character idiom

expression:

• be moderate with your mouth; sickness enters through the mouth, calamities come out of the mouth [literal] - proverb

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

noun:

• the sum of the length, width, and height of a package; length + width + height

noun:

• canopy (esp. the cloth or canvas used for it); awning; top (of a convertible); hood
• helmet cape; cloth covering one's back to protect against arrows during battle

noun / suffix noun:

• edition; version; printing; impression; implementation (e.g. software) - ばん when a suffix

noun:

• plate; block; cast

counter:

• editions of a publication