noun:

• festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking off a relationship - obscure term ➜ 絶交

expression / ichidan verb:

• to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of a match - Sumo term

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal]; good luck does not always repeat itself - proverb

noun:

• someone who curls up under a kotatsu all winter; kotatsu bug; kotatsu snail - pun on かたつむり - colloquialism ➜ こたつ・こたつむり

noun:

• festival celebrating the (temporary) transfer of a shintai away from its main shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun:

• fruit of a cactus in genus Opuntia (incl. prickly pears and cholla); cactus pear

noun:

• omission in a bill

noun:

• factory worker with a fixed term contract of employment

noun:

• surface of a tooth

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to make a (government) grant
• to release (a criminal)

noun:

• (Edo-period) head of a prisoners' group

noun:

• underground website or online message board for a school where students typically exchange information on tests, commit cyberbullying, etc.

noun:

• high-ranking retainer of a daimyo (Edo Period)

noun:

• hepatitis A

adverb:

• in a few days; at an early date

noun:

• note a semitone below the fourth degree of the Chinese and Japanese pentatonic scale - Music term ➜ 徴【ち】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a mistake

noun:

• a set of three bouts; three-game match; three-bout contest - four character idiom

noun:

• ambulance with a doctor onboard - From English "doctor car"

noun:

• building of a Shinto shrine complex built upon the highest ground

noun:

• Edo-era street merchant who carried wares hanging from a pole, hawking them in the street - obscure term

noun:

• presentation of a guidebook

noun:

• lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room
• cloud-shaped carving on the bottom of a transom
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 火鉢

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be put at a disadvantage; to get the short end of the stick