noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

noun:

• the calamity of being killed by the sword

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month) ➜ 七十二候

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• hoei koban; koban coined during the Hōei period

noun:

• (by the lunar calendar) 16th night of the month

noun:

• purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 小正月・元宵

expression / noun:

• doing or receiving something good by accident or through the invitation of somebody else; being pulled to the Zenkoji temple by a cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes

noun / ~する noun:

• action; activity

noun:

• movie (esp. during the silent movie period) - abbreviation - obsolete term ➜ 活動写真

noun:

• straight-from-the-pot udon; udon noodles pulled straight from the pot and served in the hot water used for boiling (traditionally without being soaked in cold water), eaten by dipping in sauce - Food term ➜ うどん

noun:

• school of western-inspired Japanese drama which developed towards the end of the Meiji period; shingeki; new-drama (movement)

noun:

• humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot ➜ 徒侍
• bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period) ➜ 徒士組【かちぐみ】

noun:

• Massacre of the Innocents; episode of infanticide by Herod that appears in the New Testament

temporal noun / adverbial noun:

• in the meanwhile; during the time

noun:

• song sung by children during the New Year's bird-driving procession (later adopted by door-to-door musicians) ➜ 鳥追い【とりおい】・門付歌

noun:

• pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure ➜ 島田【しまだ】

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period

noun:

• soryo system; organization of regional landholding families based on divided inheritance under the leadership of a main heir, usu. the eldest son (Kamakura period)

noun:

• Agent Orange (dioxin-laden defoliant used during the Vietnam War) ➜ 枯葉剤

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books - From English "head band" ➜ 花布