noun:

• selection of poems; selected poems

noun:

• the rounds of tradesmen going door to door
• route man; door-to-door tradesman; order taker; order-taking
• thief taker; secret policeman ➜ 岡っ引き

noun:

• place of dispatch; place of origin

noun:

• port of entry

noun:

• Minister of Transport

noun:

• state of the art report - IT term

noun:

• type of commission system in the book industry in Japan

noun:

• end of next month

noun:

• small amount of rainfall; (a) light rainfall ➜ 小雨

noun:

• shopping street in the precincts of a shrine (temple)

noun:

• ancient type of cannon

noun:

• dried boiled rice used mainly as provisions of samurai troops and travelers (travellers)

noun:

• traces of a moving light; trail (e.g. of a meteor)

noun:

• the "a" column of the Japanese syllabary table (a, i, u, e, o)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make sure of; to call attention to; to emphasize; to emphasise

noun:

• tutelary deities of the hearth

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take a copy of

noun:

• hair of the dog; another drink in the morning

noun:

• end of the year

noun:

• (daily) segment of a radio or TV program - often X月Y日放送分

noun:

• (in Japan) 5th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F sharp) ➜ 姑洗・十二律

noun:

• leader of a (large) group ➜ 小頭
• large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp ➜ 大纛
• leader of a (large) group
• puffbird (any bird of family Bucconidae) - usually written using kana alone
• first makushita rikishi listed on the banzuke - Sumo term

noun:

• one's philosophy of making, saving, and spending money - four character idiom

noun:

• bottom of a pan or pot

noun:

• transfer of stocks