noun:

• Islamic holy books (the Pentateuch, the Book of Psalms, the Gospels and the Koran)

noun:

• Edo period hair style with inflated hair at the sides; lantern sideburns [literal]

noun:

• lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house; door light

noun:

• bench used by the Emperor - archaism

noun:

• province-district-neighbourhood system (system of administrative divisions under the ritsuryo; 1 neighbourhood=~50 homes, 1 district=2-20 neighbourhoods) ➜ 郷里制・律令制

noun:

• degrading language (language used to lower the position of the listener)

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom ➜ 前門の虎後門の狼【ぜんもんのとらこうもんのおおかみ】

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom

noun:

• father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period) - polite language

noun:

• one mobile telephone ring (used by companies, usually sex-related, to register a phone number on a mobile in the hope people will return the call. Also used between acquaintances when swapping telephone numbers, or to get another person to call oneself)

noun:

• reduced-period procedure; curtailed operation - From English "short time"
• short homeroom (at the beginning and end of the school day) - From English "short time"

noun:

• split bamboo; bamboo slat; bamboo split
• noisy bamboo baton used by night watchmen (Edo period)

noun:

• Northern Di people; northern barbarians; Zhou dynasty term used by the Chinese to refer to non- ethnic Chinese to the north - archaism - derogatory term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes - idiom ➜ 目からウロコの落ちる

noun:

• ceremonial offering by the Emperor of newly-harvested rice to the deities

noun:

• one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• Cambrian system (i.e. rock layer deposited during the Cambrian period)

noun:

• wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead)
• going badly (one's business, one's fortune, the economy); being in a bad financial situation

noun:

• near one's knee
• under the protection of (e.g. one's parents); under the care of
• territory of a powerful person ［ひざもと］ ➜ お膝元
• address used after the names of one's parents, grandparents, etc. in a letter ［しっか］

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea) ➜ 竜宮【りゅうぐう】

noun:

• German silver; nickel silver
• silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods

noun:

• style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho) ➜ 天明・蕉風
• style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo) ➜ 狂歌

noun:

• drumming in the streets to announce a tournament - Sumo term
• announcing an event by walking around in the streets beating a drum; drum used to announce an event by walking around in the streets

noun:

• water left in buckets on the roadside during the summer for travellers