noun:

• visiting a shrine or temple to give thanks
• settling scores

noun:

• northern or southern lights; aurora borealis or australis

noun:

• rural scholar or pedagogue; pedant

noun:

• masu container for drinking or measuring sake ➜ 枡

noun:

• custom of keeping a pumpkin or squash during the winter and eating it on the day of the winter solstice

noun:

• good seed or breed

noun:

• recent situation or conditions

noun:

• adoption or rejection; choice; separating the needed from the unneeded

noun:

• straw or hay (laid out in barns for livestock) - obscure term

noun:

• continental or inland climate

noun:

• the blind or foolish masses

noun:

• edge or corner of a stone

noun:

• (shrine) repository or treasure house; (shrine) sanctuary

noun:

• credit card issued by a particular store or business - From English "house card"

interjection:

• exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)

noun:

• waiting woman in a shogun or daimyo's palace

noun:

• temporary residence or shelter

noun:

• colour picture or painting; color picture or painting

noun:

• interference with a public servant in the execution of his or her duties - abbreviation ➜ 公務執行妨害罪

noun:

• appearance or style of a house

noun:

• sake made from rice or other cereal which is chewed before fermentation

noun:

• bargain floor or basement

noun:

• (a plain citizen) having no special rank or title; being a common citizen - four character idiom

noun:

• employee of a messenger or delivery service - From English "hand carrier"

noun:

• yellow silk cloth with a dark striped or checkered pattern (from Hachijo island)