noun:

• paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony)
• paper used for writing tanka

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

noun:

• three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration

noun / ~する noun:

• infatuation (with a woman); obsessing (over a woman); losing one's head (over a women)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to create a stir; to make waves; to raise a question about; to cause a sensation - idiom

expression:

• after a while; a little while later; shortly afterward; after a brief interval

noun:

• right; right hand side
• afore-mentioned (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); foregoing; forgoing; above ➜ 右に同じ

noun:

• mint (e.g. peppermint, spearmint, etc.)
• Japanese peppermint (Mentha arvensis var. piperascens)

noun / ~する noun:

• favourite poem or song; favorite poem or song
• lover of poetry and song

noun:

• card to pick up (in card games); card that is picked up by players instead of read (in karuta); card printed with the second half of a poem (in karuta) ➜ 読み札

expression:

• Heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth - four character idiom

expression:

• money comes and goes; money goes around and around - proverb

noun:

• miso with sugar, sake, yuzu juice and skin - esp. ゆずみそ ➜ 練り味噌【ねりみそ】
• hollowed out yuzu stuffed with miso and yuzu juice then baked - esp. ゆみそ

noun:

• loincloth; breechcloth; breechclout; traditional Japanese male underwear
• kimono underskirt ［ふんどし・ふどし］ ➜ 腰巻
• wrestler's ornamental apron ［ふんどし・ふどし］ - Sumo term

noun / ~の noun / ~する noun:

• disguising oneself as a man; dressing as a man (for a woman); male clothing ➜ 女装【じょそう】

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half - archaism - four character idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to follow; to pursue; to chase; to run after
• to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one
• to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take something into ...; to bring in; to carry in
• to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring (a proposal); to commence negotiations ➜ 尻を持ち込む【しりをもちこむ】
• to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to place one's arms under those of the opponent and lift them up, in order to prevent an overhand grip on one's mawashi - Sumo term

noun:

• new moon - Astronomy term
• first day of the lunar month
• (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)

noun:

• consumption of goods and services by young working adults who live at home, with their basic living expenses covered by their parents; nest-dweller consumption [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• open-air tea ceremony
• aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin
• something standing in the open

noun:

• president (of a nation or company); chief executive
• big man; boss; buddy; mate - used vocatively; esp. of an actor - familiar language

noun / ~する noun:

• execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment; realization