noun:

• little four winds; winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun / ~する noun:

• change of era

noun / ~する noun:

• giving up children for adoption or apprenticeship, etc. (out of poverty); reducing the number of mouths [literal]

noun:

• keeper of imperial archives
• worker skilled in the brewing of sake or soy sauce

noun:

• highest honorifics; honorific language mainly reserved for speaking of or to a member of the Imperial family - Linguistics term

noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

noun:

• family tradition
• wind blowing from the direction of one's home ［いえかぜ］ - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense - usu. used adjectivally as 浮世離れした

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• smalleye smooth-hound (Mustelus higmani, species of houndshark from the western Atlantic)

noun:

• spotless smooth-hound (Mustelus griseus, species of houndshark from the northwest Pacific)

noun:

• sapphire damsel (Pomacentrus pavo, species of marine damselfish from the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)

noun:

• cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)

noun:

• familiarity with the land
• locality or terrain (usually associated with knowing or feeling the locality)

noun:

• style of Shinto architecture in which the main hall and worship hall share one roof, and are connected via an intermediate passageway

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life)

noun:

• seasonal word (in haiku)

noun:

• famous saying; noted haiku

noun / ~の noun:

• (haiku) lacking seasonal references

noun:

• quality of a product ➜ 品柄
• feel of goods (taste, style)

expression / adverb:

• before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
• of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them; among others

noun:

• tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable)
• forward puller (of a rickshaw)

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life); (just) the way things are ➜ 浮世

noun:

• last guest (tea ceremony); third guest of honour (honor); guest who sits in the seat furthest from the host and assists in various ways ➜ 詰め【つめ】・次客【じきゃく】・正客【しょうきゃく】