noun:

• myodesopsia; seeing floaters in one's eye - Medicine term

noun:

• spirit of a true artisan; (a craftsman's) pride in one's work - four character idiom

expression:

• person who is ignorant of the real world; frog in a well [literal]

noun:

• Chongqing government; Kuomintang government based in Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War

noun:

• library arrangement; organization of books in a library

noun:

• Heijo Palace; Imperial palace in ancient Nara ➜ 平城京

noun:

• risk money; money invested in high-risk, high-return, investments

noun:

• Coris; genus of wrasses in the family Labridae

noun:

• shift away from rice consumption; consumers losing interest in eating rice

expression / noun:

• women who excel; women in prominent positions

expression:

• jokingly; in the form of a joke

noun:

• clashing waves; tides in narrow sea straits - archaism

conjunction:

• if so; if it be so; in that case; then ➜ 然らば【さらば】

noun:

• dependent word; auxiliaries and particles in Japanese - Linguistics term

noun:

• Auchenipterus; genus of catfishes in the family Auchenipteridae

adverb:

• piled up high; in a heap ➜ 堆い

noun:

• firelight; shadows or forms moving in firelight

expression / noun:

• a fish on the chopping board; person in a situation where they are rendered powerless - idiom

noun:

• low-class actor (kabuki); actor who plays in low-class or cheap theater - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to look angrily at; to look with anger in one's eyes - idiom

noun:

• mochi rice cake with red bean jam filling; mochi rice cake covered in red bean jam ［餡餅］ - female language ➜ 餅
• mochi rice cake ［あんも］

noun:

• kaoliang; variety of sorghum, esp. used in making spirits - From Chinese

noun:

• whistling through one's fingers; whistle made by sticking one's fingers in one's mouth and blowing

noun:

• soba water; water left in the pot after one has boiled soba

noun:

• lump-sum payment; paying in a lump sum