noun:

• yaki-fu (baked wheat gluten) cut in ring-shaped slices (Niigata specialty)

expression:

• in a little while; in a bit

expression:

• in great haste; hurriedly; in a hurry

noun:

• Tarui accent, used in the Kinki region and parts of Hokuriku

noun:

• 6th in rank; sixth sign of the Chinese calendar

noun:

• tuck in

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

noun:

• in all directions - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• not in the least

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• freely adaptable, very flexible, nimble in adaptation - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop in the middle of a sentence

noun:

• in mourning

noun / ~する noun:

• zoom in ➜ ズームアウト

noun:

• making a living in the red-light district - four character idiom

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• in those days; at the time; then ➜ その頃【そのころ】

noun:

• poke in the forehead

noun:

• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

noun:

• group of buzzards (etc.) rising in an updraft (before the southward autumn migration)

noun:

• hanging curtain used in place of a wall (Heian period) - archaism ➜ とばり

noun:

• (while) holding a post or being in office

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

noun:

• voiced consonant in Japanese - Linguistics term ➜ 清音・半濁音・濁点

noun:

• song in the style of the Heikyoku ➜ 平曲【へいきょく】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to grow in clusters

noun:

• traveling inspectors sent by the Shogun in the Edo period