noun:

• luminous body like a shooting star
• any bright metal
• sliced fish with the silver skin left on (iwashi, aji, sayori, sanma, kohada, etc.)

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

expression / noun:

• fever caused by a cold

~と adverb:

• with a thud - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• treating like a stranger

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to a club (one was formerly a member of) - colloquialism - obscure term

noun:

• waiting for a ship to depart

noun:

• large fan-shaped object held by an attendant and used to conceal the face of a noble, etc.

expression:

• wretched is the lot of a government official; it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else - proverb

noun:

• deep bathtub with a water-heating tank; bathtub heated from below ➜ すいふろ

noun:

• water bucket suspended from a weighted rod

noun:

• reading and meaning of a kanji

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting) ➜ 六知事

noun:

• dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured)
• white horse ➜ 白馬【はくば】

noun:

• draft of a poem

noun:

• a table service

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be able to get a (type of) discount

noun:

• Japanese ko-so-a-do demonstratives (e.g. pronouns: kore, sore, are, dore) - Linguistics term

noun:

• skewering one's food with a chopstick in order to pick it up (a breach of etiquette)

noun / ~する noun:

• covering one's head with a handkerchief, scarf, etc.; tying a cloth around one's head ➜ ほおかぶり

noun:

• rifling marks on a fired bullet

noun:

• crown of a tooth

noun:

• grounds of a Shinto shrine
• enchanted land; abode of immortals and gods

noun:

• sumo wrestler with a big belly - Sumo term ➜ ソップ形

noun:

• (not even) a few words - four character idiom