noun:

• fish sliced open, seasoned with mirin, soy sauce, etc. and dried in the sun

noun:

• distal pronoun (indicating distance from both speaker and listener, i.e. are, asoko, achira) - Linguistics term

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

noun:

• sirenian (any aquatic mammal of order Sirenia, incl. manatees, and dugongs); sea cow

noun:

• geisha; Japanese singing and dancing girl
• dressed-up beautiful woman

noun:

• oshizushi; sushi rice and other ingredients pressed in box or mould (mold) - Food term

noun:

• powdered green tea (steamed and dried before being stone-ground) ➜ 抹茶

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean) - derogatory term

noun:

• beshimi; noh mask with a slanted mouth, bulging eyes and large nostrils

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term ➜ 貴輪時代

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• dripping ink marks; a work of calligraphy being written in bold and vivid strokes - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• conjectures and surmises; speculation; giving one's imagination full play without any ground - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• a sense of release (as if one had wings and were riding on air) - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• freely; right and left; active without any restraint; with unrestricted energy in all directions - four character idiom

noun:

• the large number of bridges over canals and rivers in Naniwa (present-day Osaka) - four character idiom

noun:

• combined race (skiing event with cross country and ski jumping)

noun:

• (Chinese-style) almond jelly; dessert of powdered and jellied apricot kernels with fruit

noun:

• depressing something and turning it while still depressed (i.e. gas stopper, spark plug)

noun:

• mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed)

expression:

• right on the heels of yesterday, then today ...; soon after something, and yet now ...

noun:

• older and fashionable man (wild-looking, burly, etc.) - colloquialism