noun:

• rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)

noun:

• rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore) ➜ 轆轤首

noun:

• Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)

noun:

• large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together; clamp; cramp (metal)
• tie (metaphorical, e.g. something that binds two people together)

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

expression:

• putting the cart before the horse; putting the diapers on before (the baby) is born [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• restoration; rehabilitation; recovery; return; replevin; improvement ［回復・恢復］
• recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence - esp. 快復

noun:

• dry lacquer statue; statue made from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with laquer

noun:

• novel from the late Edo period focused on the love stories of ordinary townsfolk

noun:

• (in Japanese history) crude warrior from the eastern parts of the country; wild man

noun:

• grain thief; tool for extracting rice from a bag for sampling

noun:

• deep double underarm grip which prevents the opponent from grabbing the belt - Sumo term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to do something with painful reluctance; to have one's hair pulled from behind [literal] - idiom

noun:

• shift away from rice consumption; consumers losing interest in eating rice

noun:

• mounted bandit (esp. historically in NE China from the end of the Qing dynasty)

noun:

• type of hanging scroll (made from paper of approx. 130cm x 30cm in size)

noun:

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

noun:

• small boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat (Edo period); lighter ➜ 瀬取り船

adverb:

• from now on; in the future; hereafter; ahead of us; down the road

noun:

• wedge marks in stone (usu. remaining from stone-splitting, now used for visual effect) - obscure term ➜ 矢【や】

noun:

• generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward) ➜ ゆとり教育【ゆとりきょういく】

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• Brexit; withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become known; to come to light; to be discovered ➜ お里が知れる【おさとがしれる】
• to be known; to be understood - often in the negative ➜ 気が知れない【きがしれない】・得体の知れない【えたいのしれない】
• to obviously not amount to much; to seem trivial ➜ 高が知れている【たかがしれている】
• to be evident; to be obvious; to go without saying - in the form しれたこと
• to be very intense (worry, hope, etc.); to be extremely severe - in forms like どれほど…かしれない