noun:

• shrill voice
• unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting - usu. 素声 ➜ 平曲
• part of an unaccompanied poem (in noh)

noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism

noun:

• pumice stone
• loose rock; loose stone
• floating group (in the game of go); group without a base

adverbial noun / noun:

• all over the country; throughout the land; every nook and cranny of the land - four character idiom

noun:

• the Twenty-Two Shrines; the 22 most important Shinto shrines, as designated during the Heian period - Shintō term

noun:

• banquet on the occasion of the first ceremonial offering of rice by the newly-enthroned emperor ➜ 大嘗祭

noun:

• ship of the dead which appears if you go fishing the night of the Bon festival ➜ お盆

noun:

• lingering snow ➜ 残雪
• snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring

noun:

• lingering snow
• snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring

noun:

• hemp rope fastened from the bow of a Japanese ship to the tip of the mast ➜ 筈

noun:

• arriving at the final stop (of a bus, train, etc.); reaching the end of the line

noun:

• tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be soaked in; to be flooded; to be submerged
• to be immersed in (joy, memories, alcohol, etc.); to give oneself over to; to bask in

noun:

• wind blowing on the day of the Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (15th day of the 2nd month) - Buddhism term

noun:

• dandy; peacock; early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza; Edo-period eccentric who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and weird behavior - four character idiom

noun:

• fashion style heavy on make-up and elaborate hairstyles, used among Japanese rock bands, musicians, etc. ➜ Ｖ系【ブイけい】
• handsome man (esp. one who knows this)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be betrayed unexpectedly; to be stabbed in the back; to be double-crossed

noun:

• the text; the main clause; the main part of a document - Linguistics term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference

noun:

• stabilizing the feelings of the people; inspiring confidence among the people - four character idiom

noun:

• the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess - four character idiom

noun:

• The Nonpareil Kitchen; The Kitchen of the Nation (nickname for Osaka)

noun:

• the kalpa of formation (the first aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

noun:

• the kalpa of nothingness (the final aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

noun:

• remainder of the Diet session after the creation of the budget