noun:

• the lone woman (e.g. bright flower) in a group

noun:

• standee (in a theatre); standing-room spectator; the gallery

noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 御旅所

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to perform religious rites for the repose of a soul

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop in the middle of a sentence

noun:

• store holding a special commendation (e.g. from the mayor)

noun / ~の noun:

• familism; the treatment of society (an organization) as a family

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• feeling a little drunk with the New Year's sake - four character idiom

noun:

• lintel (lacking the grooves needed for a sliding door) - Architecture term ➜ 蹴放し

noun:

• reinforcing "bolt" stitch across the bottom of a seam

noun:

• drying a futon (by hanging it outside in the sun)

noun:

• string tied across the open chest of a haori

noun / ~する noun:

• completing the path to becoming a Buddha (by attaining enlightenment)

noun:

• parison (first small bubble at the end of a blowpipe)

noun:

• coloured curtains hanging from the eaves of a Buddhist temple

noun:

• the sound of one hand clapping (a classic Zen koan) ➜ 公案

noun:

• slender rope that goes through the hole in a coin

noun:

• myelin sheath (around the axon of a neuron) - obscure term ➜ 髄鞘

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - polite language ➜ ない・ます

noun:

• shafts (attached to the yoke of a cart, plow, etc.)

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - polite language - Kansai dialect ➜ ません

expression / noun:

• jealous complaint; the loud bark of a talentless dog [literal] - idiom

noun:

• office (government department beneath a bureau under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制

noun:

• cere; skin at the base of a bird's beak