noun:

• traditional textile of the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa

noun:

• everyday garment worn by men in ancient Japan - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• reciting poetry or singing in a soft voice

noun:

• student who can't keep up in school - sensitive

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Postal Services Privatization

noun:

• Nebuta Festival (in Aomori, August 2-7)

expression:

• in fooling the enemy first deceive your allies - proverb

noun:

• man'yōgana written in kaisho or gyōsho style ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• bit part (e.g. in a film); extra

noun:

• ne bis in idem; prohibition against double jeopardy

noun:

• var. of puppet popular in the Edo period

noun:

• ordinary woman secretly engaged in prostitution (Edo period) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• kissing in public (on the street) - obscure term - slang

noun:

• bacteremia; bacteraemia (presence of bacteria in the blood)

auxiliary verb / conjunction:

• in order to; for the purpose of

auxiliary / suffix:

• must; should ➜ 可き・可き・可し

noun:

• strong smell of grass (esp.in summer heat)

noun:

• in-house faction (political groups within the Diet)

temporal noun:

• first thing in the morning - colloquialism

expression:

• feeling sad or downhearted; down in the dumps - idiom

noun:

• large undertaking attempted in a far-off land - archaism

expression / noun:

• being outnumbered (e.g. in a military context)

noun:

• food steam-boiled in an earthenware teapot - Food term

noun:

• violent scene (in a movie, etc.)

noun:

• Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949) - obsolete term

noun:

• spiracle (respiratory pores in the body of insects)