noun:

• juvenile delinquent under the age of fourteen; minor in trouble with the law

interjection:

• come on; hurry up; chop chop - archaism ➜ 其れ其れ【それそれ】
• yeah; that's right; exactly - archaism ➜ 其れ其れ【それそれ】

expression:

• constant dripping wears away the stone; little strokes fell great oaks; limited strength, when persistently applied, can accomplish great feats - four character idiom

noun:

• putting on the pressure; pushing forward
• being pressed; being under pressure

noun:

• selling on balance; net selling

noun:

• sweets for offering at the Dolls' Festival

noun:

• culture of the printed word; book culture

noun:

• head of the penis

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to go on waiting only to be disappointed; to wait in vain ➜ 待ちぼうけ

noun:

• periodic table of the elements - obscure term ➜ 周期表

noun / ~する noun:

• absence on account of illness

noun:

• wearing a hat pushed back on one's head

noun:

• a cold air mass

noun:

• soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
• term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
• guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there

noun:

• game of (blindfolded) tag similar to the children's swimming pool game "Marco Polo"

noun:

• poem or song written by the emperor

noun:

• the average Joe; your average nice guy; Joe Blow; Joe Bloggs - four character idiom ➜ 熊さん八っつあん

noun:

• being under the rule of; being under the government of

noun:

• highest part of the shoulder (of clothing)

noun / ~する noun:

• turning a suspect over to the public prosecutor's office; committing a suspect to trial - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil

noun:

• kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times ➜ 七変化【しちへんげ】
• the seven common disguises of ninja

noun / ~する noun:

• removing the astringent taste (from persimmons)

noun:

• line drive to the shortstop - Baseball term - From English "short liner"

noun:

• unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture during the Edo period (sometimes alleged to have been a UFO)