noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• flat ground
• seats immediately in front of the stage (e.g. in kabuki) ➜ 平土間【ひらどま】
• multi-brand display area (in a shop)

noun:

• crookedness; something not right; something out of the ordinary; something unpleasant; something disgusting; unlawfulness; something unhappy; calamity

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to differ; to be different
• to run counter to
• to change (into something out of the ordinary)

noun:

• the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kencho-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jochi-ji, Jomyo-ji) ➜ 京都五山

noun:

• futon (quilted Japanese-style mattress laid out on the floor)
• round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

noun:

• townspeople; townsfolk; commoner; civilian; merchant; tradesman; tradeswoman; tradespeople; artisan; members of the lowest Edo-period social class (comprising commoners not involved in farming)

noun:

• black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan, and afterwards spreading to the common people

noun:

• one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses) - vulgar ➜ 被差別部落民

expression:

• something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this); eye drops from the second floor [literal] - idiom

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

noun:

• flesh
• meat
• the physical body (as opposed to the spirit) ［にく］
• thickness ［にく］
• ink pad ［にく］ ➜ 印肉

adverbial noun / conjunction:

• etc.; otherwise; besides; in addition; the rest; the others; and so forth - そのた is the more common reading when written

adverb:

• in general; on the whole; for the most part; by and large; almost all

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れの舞台

noun:

• bumpy tiles set in public areas to mark the path for the blind

noun:

• renouncing the flesh or the world; becoming a priest; risking one's life for others - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• ground levelling (leveling)
• laying the groundwork; making preparations; smoothing the way

noun:

• roller; road leveller

noun:

• state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

noun:

• kanji "leg" or "foot" radical at left
• being (too) late; the past; the previous ［あとへん］

expression:

• (with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force - idiom

noun:

• Galeocerdo (genus in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the tiger shark)

noun:

• Paracanthurus (genus in the family Acanthuridae whose sole member is the palette surgeonfish)

expression / noun:

• the strong overwhelming the weak; completing various things without difficulty; Mt. Tai crushes an egg [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• grandfather
• old man ［おおじ］ ➜ 爺
• kyogen mask used for the role of an old man ［おおじ］