noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

noun:

• sencha tea ceremony; Way of Sencha Tea; Chinese-influenced Japanese tea ceremony using leaf tea rather than powdered tea, assoc. with the Ōbaku school of zen ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】・黄檗宗【おうばくしゅう】

noun:

• right or wrong; good or bad; quality; suitability
• having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)
• Siebold's primrose (Primula siebold)

noun:

• Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares

noun:

• oyakodon-like dish made with something other than chicken; bowl of rice with cooked meat (esp. beef or pork) and eggs on top - Food term ➜ 親子丼

noun:

• nailist; someone whose occupation is to cut any type of nail, apply artificial nails (or "nail art") and care for nails

adverb / ~と adverb:

• stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness - onomatopoeia ➜ きりっと
• cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible
• creaking of a door or oar

noun:

• concealed winning hand consisting of chows, a pair that isn't a value pair, and an open wait - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

adverb:

• often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently

noun:

• Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari)
• the Minamoto family

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make way for; to make room for; to get out of the way - esp. 道を空ける
• to pave the way for; to open up opportunity - esp. 道を開ける

adjective:

• old; aged; ancient; antiquated; antique; timeworn - of things, not people
• long; since long ago; time-honored
• of the distant past; long-ago
• stale; threadbare; hackneyed; corny
• old-fashioned; outmoded; out-of-date

noun:

• lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge ➜ 妻入り

expression:

• rejecting the advances of women is a man's shame; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame [literal] - proverb ➜ 据え膳【すえぜん】

noun / ~する noun:

• slamming one's hand into the wall in front of somebody (e.g. to stop them from leaving; often viewed as romantic) - slang
• banging on the wall (e.g. to quieten one's neighbour) - colloquialism

suffix:

• style; manner
• after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time) ➜ 久しぶり【ひさしぶり】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be summoned (i.e. of a geisha, by a customer)
• to be offered (the job of ...); to be invited (to do ...) - usu. as 〜の口が掛かる

expression:

• if a man hears the Way in the morning, he may die in the evening without regret - from a quote by Confucius - proverb

expression:

• it's not over yet; you haven't seen anything yet; it's not over until the fat lady sings; it's too soon to tell; we're not out of the woods

noun:

• twentieth day of the month
• twenty days

noun:

• Sunday - abbreviation ➜ 日曜

suffix:

• day (of the month) - also んち or ち

suffix / counter:

• counter for days - also んち or ち

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• Japan - abbreviation ➜ 日本

noun:

• sunlight; rays of the sun