noun:

• tub used to collect feces in an outhouse ➜ 便壺

noun:

• bucket used for cleaning oneself in a bathhouse

noun:

• sweet potato variety (often used in shochu brewing)

noun:

• Sanuki accent, used in northern Shikoku

noun:

• kotatsu not put away but used in spring - obscure term

noun:

• auspicious characters (used in people or place names)

noun:

• traditional Japanese steel (e.g. used in swords)

noun:

• baby talk (used in talking to young children)

noun:

• building where one keeps oxcarts and other conveyances inside a private estate
• resting area for one's oxcart, wagon, etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• deposit and withdraw; taking in and out

noun:

• building for observing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. (sometimes specifically that used by the emperor on the greater palace grounds) - archaism ➜ 武徳殿

noun / ~する noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends) ➜ 煙管乗り

noun:

• unparalleled in Japan and China and India (unparallelled)

expression:

• in steps of; in units of; calculated by

noun:

• here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
• these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
• these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから

temporal noun / adverbial noun:

• the other day; lately; recently; during this period
• meanwhile; in the meantime ［このかん］

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

noun / ~する noun:

• going to bed (usu. with someone) - From English "bed in"

noun:

• tachibana peel (oft. minced and used as a spice) ➜ 橘
• yellow-dyed leather ［黄皮］

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

noun:

• Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)

noun:

• dharma mandala (in Shingon); mandala were each deity is represented by its seed syllable in Sanskrit - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

noun:

• festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3
• lucky numbers 7, 5 and 3

adverb:

• for no particular reason; for some reason or other; somehow or other