noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

noun:

• women in the sciences; female scientists ➜ 理系女

expression / noun:

• in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances

noun:

• costume for women serving in the inner palace (Heian period) - archaism

adverb / noun:

• in all ages; since antiquity - four character idiom

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• point(s) for improvement

noun:

• playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧

noun:

• posture in which the legs are firmly planted (in sumo and judo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term

adverb:

• in all ages; over the ages; forever and ever ➜ いつの時代も

noun:

• white powder for use on the neck (e.g. by geisha)

noun:

• indulging in every possible luxury - four character idiom

noun:

• cost for leasing

noun:

• hemorrage in the fundus of the eye

expression:

• thank you for your continued patronage

noun:

• offerings of rope, paper, etc. hung on trees in Shinto shrines

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "nu"; "na" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• box-office takings; box-office revenue - abbreviation ➜ 興行収入

noun:

• in-car announcement (on a train); PA system on a train

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

noun:

• being frozen in ice

noun:

• number of days spent in hospital

noun:

• dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process

noun:

• sewing box

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to haul in (e.g. rope, net, etc.); to pull in; to attract (e.g. stares)