noun:

• very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in confusion or commotion; to be in a turmoil; to be crowded or jammed with people

expression:

• being in doubt and unable to decide; hesitation and indecision - four character idiom

noun:

• suffering caused by the cold

noun:

• laws established by daimyo applicable only in their own domain (during the Warring States period) ➜ 戦国大名

noun:

• ticket to the garden

noun:

• breaking and removing frozen snow to expose the ground - obscure term

noun:

• creeping plant withered in the winter cold - archaism

noun:

• two o'clock in the morning

noun:

• vinegar mixed with ginger juice and soy sauce, etc. - Food term

noun:

• sense of the vanity of life; perception of the evanescence of life

noun:

• system that allows for the construction of highways and buildings in the same space

noun:

• Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi) ➜ 勅撰和歌集

interjection:

• humble greeting at the beginning of a letter - honorific language - archaism ➜ 敬白・粛啓

noun:

• speaking with a trill; rolling one's r's

noun:

• noodles with bits of deep-fried tempura batter (tenkasu, agedama) - Kansai dialect ➜ たぬきうどん・天かす【てんかす】・揚げ玉【あげだま】

noun:

• common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)

noun:

• tossing several items into the air and attempting to catch them all (form of street performance)
• sleight of hand; magic

noun:

• soba made with two parts udon flour to eight parts soba flour

noun:

• the Gulf Stream

noun:

• wooden rods (square, used in a pair) used in Kansai-area rakugo (e.g. to mark scene changes); small clapper

expression / adjective:

• stands comparison with; compares favorably with; no means inferior to; equal to

noun:

• the "thirty-percent autonomy" of local governments

noun:

• sides of the chest - obscure term

noun:

• pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine