noun:

• having only tiles of one suit and not having called any tiles (yaku); having only tiles of one suit and a concealed hand - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ メンゼン・清一色

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

noun / ~する noun:

• call; summons; paging; curtain call ➜ 呼び出す【よびだす】

noun:

• usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc. - Sumo term
• telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached - abbreviation ➜ 呼び出し電話
• box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse) - archaism ➜ 陸湯
• high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period) - archaism
• unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• running (for election); coming forward as a candidate
• going on horseback
• going in person
• letting out a horse; taking out a horse - archaism

noun:

• kana written after a kanji to complete the full (usually kun) reading of the word; declensional kana ending

noun:

• only
• prostitute attached to the exclusive service of a single member of the Occupation Forces (WW2) ［オンリー］

noun:

• Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements

noun:

• young person acting like an old person
• officials who helped the council of elders during the Edo period ➜ 老中

adverb:

• after all; in the end; when all's said and done
• for the time being; at present

noun:

• someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel

expression:

• "the shoemaker's children go barefoot" [figurative]; the dyer wears white [literal]; specialists often fail to apply their skills to themselves

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to hold a memorial service for the dead, praying for their happiness in the next life by chanting sutras - Buddhism term

noun:

• carrying over a bill from one Diet session to the next, being deliberated by a committee in the interim

expression:

• any event can bring about an effect in an unexpected way; if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper [literal] - proverb

noun:

• terracotta army (clay figurines found near the mausoleum of the first Qin emperor in China); terracotta warriors and horses ➜ 兵馬

noun:

• selecting an auspicious date by looking at the astrological information on the calendar; date selected in such a manner

noun:

• secretary (lowest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 四等官
• shrine official (ranking below a negi) ［しゅてん］ - obsolete term ➜ 禰宜

noun:

• blackeye rabbitfish (Siganus puelloides, species of rabbitfish found in the Maldives and the Similan Islands)

noun:

• Gray's monitor (Varanus olivaceus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard from Luzon and the Catanduanes Islands in the Philippines)

noun:

• free markets and open guilds - abbreviation ➜ 楽市楽座
• way of sitting on the ground with the sole of both feet pressed together

noun:

• low-class prostitute who was kept in a sort of cage at the front of the establishment (Edo period)

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• prize archery
• imperial archery event held annually on the 18th day of the first lunar month (Heian period)

noun:

• thin washer on either side of the guard (tsuba) of a sword
• (up to) the hilt; wits' end ➜ 切羽詰まる

noun:

• 1955 System; Japanese political alignment with the LDP in government and the JSP in opposition, which lasted until 1993 ➜ 自由民主党【じゆうみんしゅとう】・日本社会党【にっぽんしゃかいとう】