noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ お達し【おたっし】

noun:

• division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods - archaism
• the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)

particle:

• even
• even if; even though
• because of; on the grounds that

expression:

• going well together; good combination - idiom

noun:

• family crest featuring a ring of bamboo with a sparrow in the middle
• design featuring bamboo and sparrows (motif in Japanese painting)

noun / adjectival noun:

• luxury; extravagance

~する noun:

• to live in luxury; to indulge oneself

adjectival noun:

• lavish (use of something); abundant; copious; wasteful

noun:

• precepts given to an adherent prior to being consecrated as an Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 伝法灌頂・阿闍梨

noun:

• publicly-traded stock; stock listed on the stock exchange

noun:

• babies born on October 10, supposedly conceived on New Year's Day
• normal gestation time (i.e. 9 months)

noun:

• blindness in one eye; having one eye much bigger than the other; someone blind in one eye; someone with one eye much bigger than the other - sensitive

noun:

• high-ranking noh actor ➜ 能太夫
• head of a school of noh performance
• high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period)
• jōruri narrator; manzai narrator ➜ 浄瑠璃・万歳【まんざい】
• female role actor in kabuki ➜ 女形
• low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine ➜ 御師
• lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) ［太夫］

noun:

• navicular bone (largest wrist bone on the thumb side); scaphoid (bone)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to think (only used to speak of others) - honorific language
• to turn one's attention toward (only used to speak of others); to have feelings for (only used to speak of others)
• to honour the target of one's emotions

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

noun:

• flying overnight; spending a night on on a plane

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term ➜ 待婚期間

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to nock (an arrow); to fix an arrow to the string

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

noun / ~する noun:

• regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on

noun:

• market price
• speculation (e.g. on stocks)
• reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation; esteem

noun / ~する noun:

• fasting; abstinence; confinement to one's house on an unlucky day

noun:

• wooden box carried on one's back to store items for a pilgrimage

expression:

• on such good terms as to know what each other is thinking - apparently from 通過の仲 - idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to open up a path; to clear a path
• to open up doors; to pave the way