noun:

• standing panel used in Kansai-area rakugo to hide the performer's legs from view; knee-hider [literal]

noun:

• word, phrase, or image that is perceived as showing or suggesting discrimination or prejudice against a person or group of people

expression / adverb:

• good or bad; right or wrong; for better or for worse; rightly or wrongly

noun:

• leadoff batter; first batter - Baseball term - From English "top batter"
• first person appearing (witness, performer, etc.)

noun:

• street performance in which the performer transforms a specially-made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem ➜ 南京【ナンキン】・簾【すだれ】

noun:

• skilled person; capable person; shrewd person; go-getter; hotshot
• doer; performer; agent
• giver; bestower
• brothel madam ➜ 遣り手婆【やりてばば】

noun:

• street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head

expression / adverb:

• or perhaps I should say; or more precisely; or, how should I put it; or rather ➜ ってゆうか

noun:

• priest who was also a street performer and performed prayers and other religious duties for the sake of other people

noun:

• following or later or last clause or article, etc.

adjectival noun / noun:

• many troubles or sadnesses or vexations or grudges

adverb:

• something or other; one thing or another; this or that

noun:

• on-stage performance by musicians in a kabuki play
• shamisen accompaniment when a performer (esp. a rakugo story teller) appears on stage

suffix:

• -ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite) - indicates nationality, race, origin, etc.
• -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ... - indicates expertise (in a certain field)
• man; person; people - usu. in compound words

noun:

• safe, easy childbirth - abbreviation
• guardian bodhisattva, buddha or deity of children or childbirth (esp. Ksitigarbha or Avalokitesvara) ➜ 子安観音・子安地蔵

conjunction:

• or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean - colloquialism ➜ と言うか

noun:

• position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); open interest; outstanding account; sales or purchase contract

noun:

• washbasin; stoup or font for cleaning hands (esp. tea house, garden decoration, or for ablutions when visiting a shrine or temple) ➜ 手水舎

noun:

• preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism) ［おしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism) ［かしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism) ［わじょう］ - usu. 和上 - honorific language
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism ➜ 法眼
• monk (esp. the head monk of a temple) ［おしょう・かしょう］
• master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

noun:

• altering pronunciation or meaning; word with altered pronunciation or meaning
• turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 転句【てんく】

noun:

• tamponade; blockage or closure of a wound or body cavity by (or as if by) a tampon (esp. to stop bleeding) - Medicine term ➜ 心タンポナーデ【しんタンポナーデ】

adverb / expression:

• before or since; neither before nor after; no other time in one's life; stressing a particular moment or event as being unique or most extreme

noun:

• natural or man-made feature or object on the earth's surface (trees, hill, river, road, building, etc.); object or structure important in a battle, esp. for concealment

noun:

• pidgin; creole; new language created by blending two or more existing languages (e.g. Afrikaans) - Linguistics term
• contamination; creation of unorthodox words or phrases by combining terms of similar form or meaning - Linguistics term ➜ コンタミネーション

expression:

• presence or absence; whether something is there or not; whether something happens or not - usu. ...のあるなし