expression:

• the day is short, and the work is much; my goal is still a long way off - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• shoulder massage (performed by tapotement)
• tap on the shoulder (request to resign)

noun:

• stockpile rice (kept by the government to use as emergency provisions); reserved rice

noun:

• black silk or paper triangle worn over the forehead (usu. worn by children)

noun / ~する noun:

• involving the audience (by talking to them, bringing them on stage, etc.)

noun:

• surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies

noun:

• player put on starting list to be replaced by another when the opponent's pitcher is known

noun:

• downstage left pillar (on a noh stage), by which the supporting actor introduces himself ➜ 脇【わき】
• doorjamb; jambe; jamb

noun:

• ABCD line; embargoes against Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch starting in 1940

noun:

• Edo chrysanthemum; variety of chrysanthemum originally cultivated in Edo
• China aster (Callistephus chinensis) ➜ 蝦夷菊

noun:

• color of a flower (colour)
• light indigo; light blue

noun:

• picture-matching (with card games, etc.); matching pictures
• picture-matching contest (popular in the Heian period); e-awase

noun:

• kid; brat - archaism
• Edo term used to debase people from Kansai

noun:

• curtained sleeping platform in shinden-style residences (used by people of high rank) ➜ 寝殿造り・帳台

noun:

• period of prescription; period of statute of limitations - Law term

noun:

• large-scale, long-running TV series (esp. of period pieces produced by NHK) ➜ 大河小説

noun:

• court lady with her own private chamber or office - archaism
• low-class prostitute (Edo period)

noun:

• maid at an inn who served clients and worked as a prostitute (Edo period) ➜ 飯盛り女

noun:

• men pressed into forced labor (ritsuryo system) - archaism
• palanquin bearer (Edo period) ［しちょう・じちょう・してい］ - archaism

noun:

• white night (i.e. at the North or South Pole); short night; night under the midnight sun

noun:

• six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu) ➜ 三途の川

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

counter:

• counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); a noun read using its on-yomi

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• an utai (noh chant) piece for recitation
• accompanied singing in which the singing is emphasized over the instrumental part (emphasised)