noun:

• yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe) ➜ 湯帷子

noun / ~の noun:

• place near the mountains ➜ 海手

noun:

• hilly section of a city (e.g. Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama) ➜ 山の手

noun:

• turning another away at the gate or front door; refusing to receive a caller

noun:

• drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke
• doing something suddenly, without warning

noun:

• body double (orig. of a military leader)
• wire puller; someone behind the scenes

noun / ~する noun:

• mistake; blunder; bungle; goof
• mistakenly announcing a win without having all the requisite tiles - original meaning - Mahjong term

noun:

• gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater) ➜ 義太夫

expression:

• much ado about nothing; The mountains have brought forth a mouse (Aesop)

noun:

• stealthy steps
• spurt to overtake a leading horse just before the finish line

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

noun:

• chart used to keep track of a wrestler's records during the tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• (a house) looking deserted with few visitors; sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• giving off a foul odor; the air being heavy with an offensive smell - four character idiom

noun:

• a good chance coming along; the time has come (for, to, when...); opportunity knocking - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction

expression:

• cannot live even a minute without someone or something; meaning the world to one

noun:

• war started or ended with the push of a single 'launch' button - obscure term - From English "button war"

noun:

• creeper (plant that grows along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

counter:

• counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system) - archaism

noun:

• loss of a match that is 'called' part way into the game

noun:

• (in China) 8th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A) ➜ 黄鐘【おうしき】・十二律
• sixth lunar month

expression:

• there is no comparison between the two; it's not a same-day discussion [literal] - proverb

noun:

• style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period (often with a military theme)

noun:

• archer's glove (with a groove for pulling the string)