noun:

• outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period

noun:

• consideration (in contract law, the thing given or done by the promisee in exchange for the promise)

noun:

• side-foot (e.g. in soccer); kick with the side of the foot - From English "sidekick"
• side kick (e.g. in martial arts)
• sidekick; companion

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.); to rush for (the door); to inundate; to overwhelm; to push aside

noun:

• Old Imperial Family; former Imperial family; eleven former houses of the Imperial Family stripped of membership in 1947

noun:

• sencha tea ceremony; Way of Sencha Tea; Chinese-influenced Japanese tea ceremony using leaf tea rather than powdered tea, assoc. with the Ōbaku school of zen ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】・黄檗宗【おうばくしゅう】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be left without means of sustenance; to be turned adrift in the streets; to be rendered homeless; to be out in the cold; to be down and out - idiom

expression:

• take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die [literal]

expression:

• the student has become the master; blue dye comes from the indigo plant and is bluer than indigo [literal] - proverb

noun:

• being frustrated because something is not quite as hoped (just as one cannot scratch an itch from outside a shoe); having an itch that one cannot scratch - four character idiom

noun:

• Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari)
• the Minamoto family

expression:

• scholarship and swordsmanship are one and the same; the literary and the military are the same path - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make way for; to make room for; to get out of the way - esp. 道を空ける
• to pave the way for; to open up opportunity - esp. 道を開ける

adjective:

• old; aged; ancient; antiquated; antique; timeworn - of things, not people
• long; since long ago; time-honored
• of the distant past; long-ago
• stale; threadbare; hackneyed; corny
• old-fashioned; outmoded; out-of-date

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge ➜ 妻入り

expression:

• rejecting the advances of women is a man's shame; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame [literal] - proverb ➜ 据え膳【すえぜん】

noun / ~する noun:

• having no make-up; wearing no make-up; being without make-up - From English "no make"

noun / ~する noun:

• slamming one's hand into the wall in front of somebody (e.g. to stop them from leaving; often viewed as romantic) - slang
• banging on the wall (e.g. to quieten one's neighbour) - colloquialism

suffix:

• style; manner
• after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time) ➜ 久しぶり【ひさしぶり】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be summoned (i.e. of a geisha, by a customer)
• to be offered (the job of ...); to be invited (to do ...) - usu. as 〜の口が掛かる

noun:

• small, thin fabric belt worn over the kimono and under the obi in order to protect the fabric

expression:

• if a man hears the Way in the morning, he may die in the evening without regret - from a quote by Confucius - proverb

expression:

• it's not over yet; you haven't seen anything yet; it's not over until the fat lady sings; it's too soon to tell; we're not out of the woods

noun:

• twentieth day of the month
• twenty days

noun:

• Sunday - abbreviation ➜ 日曜

suffix:

• day (of the month) - also んち or ち

suffix / counter:

• counter for days - also んち or ち

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• Japan - abbreviation ➜ 日本