noun:

• cut of meat comprising the plate and the flank

noun:

• man of letters; writer

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

noun:

• woman of mature beauty - four character idiom

noun:

• table of rankings - Sumo term

noun:

• (disreputable) recruiter of day laborers (labourers)

noun:

• scruff of neck

noun / adjectival noun:

• cause of offense; cause of offence; annoyance; peeve

noun:

• spasms; convulsions; cramps

noun:

• component of force

noun:

• inflammation of a tendon (sheath); tendonitis; tendinitis; tenosynovitis; tenovaginitis; tendovaginitis - Medicine term

adverb:

• under the influence of

noun:

• front of (the main building of) a shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• burial of ashes

noun:

• oblong stand for trays of food
• weighing table

noun:

• sphincter muscle of the pupil; sphincter pupillae - Anatomy term

expression / adjective:

• holding the attention of the audience ➜ 聴衆を飽かさない【ちょうしゅうをあかさない】

noun:

• first Serpent day of the year

noun:

• calm and peaceful period of time - obscure term

noun:

• separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)

noun:

• way of doing

noun:

• feeling of dread; awful feeling; sense of fear

noun:

• team of lawyers; defense team; defence team

noun:

• Tokai region of Honshu (incl. Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie and southern Gifu prefectures)

suffix noun:

• characteristic way of speaking

noun:

• decorated pottery container for storing the bones of one's ancestors (Okinawa) - called じ〜しか〜み or じ〜しが〜み in Okinawa ➜ 厨子