noun:

• money to see one over the New Year period

expression / adverb:

• in no way ➜ 二進も三進も行かない【にっちもさっちもいかない】

noun:

• old Japanese court music from the Nara period ➜ 右方高麗楽

noun:

• the others; the remainder

expression / ~よい adjective:

• knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things

noun:

• spear with curved cross-blades

noun:

• rotating warning light similar to the one on a patrol car - abbreviation - From English "patrol light" ➜ パトカー

noun:

• test for a position in a company; company entrance test

noun:

• shoyu flavoured with katsuobushi broth; bonito-flavoured soy sauce

noun:

• ridged cracks that form in the ice on Lake Suwa

expression / ichidan verb:

• to preserve in salt

expression:

• the clouds look menacing
• things don't look good

noun:

• first laugh of the year

expression:

• a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband

noun:

• the knowledge industry

noun:

• initial playing of an instrument in the New Year

expression:

• (to pay off) in full

noun:

• life in exile

noun:

• common pill bug (Armadillidium vulgare)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be to the point; to be pertinent

noun:

• person in charge of warming sake in a bar

noun:

• pad placed below the sheet on which a seal is to be pressed - used to make the seal's imprint clearer

noun:

• fooling around with objects (type of improvised comedy act)

noun:

• female hairstyle starting from the Keicho period - obscure term ➜ 慶長

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to assault with a sword; to stab at; to slash at