Results, langage used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
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- 上滑り☆【うわすべり】上すべり・上滑べり Inflection
~の noun / adjectival noun / ~する noun / noun:
- superficial; shallow
~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:
- frivolous; careless; thoughtless
noun / ~する noun:
- sliding along the surface of something; being slippery
- 一網打尽【いちもうだじん】
noun:
- round-up (e.g. of criminals); wholesale arrest; catching the whole herd with one throw - four character idiom
- しゃこ《蝦蛄・青竜蝦》シャコ
noun:
- mantis shrimp (any marine crustacean of order Stomatopoda, esp. the species Oratosquilla oratoria)
- 雁皮紙【がんぴし】
noun:
- traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮
- 三人寄れば文殊の知恵【さんにんよればもんじゅのちえ】三人よれば文殊の知恵
expression:
- two heads are better than one; if three people gather; the wisdom of Manjushri [literal] - proverb ➜ 文殊
- せきれい・まなばしらobs.・にわくなぶりobs.・にわくなぎobs.・つつobs.《鶺鴒》セキレイ
noun:
- any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits); wagtail; longclaw
- 親告罪【しんこくざい】
noun:
- type of crime which requires a formal complaint from the victim in order to prosecute - Law term
- 十年一昔【じゅうねんひとむかし】
noun:
- expression suggesting that the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history - four character idiom
- 神嘗祭【かんなめさい・かんにえのまつり・しんじょうさい】神嘗の祭【かんにえのまつり】
noun:
- offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)
- 落籍【らくせき】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- lack of registration (in the census register)
- buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け
- 色事師【いろごとし】
noun:
- lady-killer; casanova; Don Juan
- kabuki actor who has mastered the art of romantic acting
- パラポックスウイルス属【パラポックスウイルスぞく】
noun:
- Parapoxvirus (genus of large oval shaped DNA based viruses in the family Poxviridae)
- 無能無策【むのうむさく】
noun:
- ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation - four character idiom
- 撥音便【はつおんびん】
noun:
- nasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 促音便
- 今一歩【いまいっぽ】いま一歩
expression / adverb:
- one more; another; the other ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
- not quite ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
- close run; just falling short of success
- ゴールデントライアングル・ゴールデン・トライアングル
noun:
- Golden Triangle (area near the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos)
- 青田刈り【あおたがり】
noun:
- harvesting rice while it is still green
- recruiting of university students before the agreed date ➜ 青田買い【あおたがい】
- 下学上達【かがくじょうたつ・かがくしょうたつobs.】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- beginning one's studies with something familiar and gradually increasing the depth of learning - four character idiom
- 雑味【ざつみ】
noun:
- off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink
- ローマ字綴り【ローマじつづり】ローマ字つづり
noun:
- romanization (representation of foreign words using the Roman alphabet); romanized spelling
- ポツダム宣言【ポツダムせんげん】
noun:
- Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945 statement establishing the terms of a Japanese surrender)
- 唯識【ゆいしき】
noun:
- vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) - Buddhism term
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