noun:

• Buddhist; researcher of Buddhism

noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to only one child - four character idiom

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to exit - slang ➜ 入り待ち

noun:

• individually "washing" a partner's fingers or toes in one's vagina (esp. as a service at a soapland) - slang ➜ ソープランド

noun:

• unnatural or untimely (death)

noun:

• right of or to independence

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:

• town originally built around a Shinto shrine ➜ 門前町

noun:

• obstacle to Buddhist practice
• penis - vulgar - usually written using kana alone

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