noun:

• someone or something that just gets in the way; a burden ➜ 荷物

noun:

• battle standard raised next to the horse of a commander

noun:

• inflatable (in the sense of "needs to be inflated for normal use")

noun:

• typical dress of the military class, usually worn together with a hakama ➜ 袴

expression:

• craft brings nothing home; the crafty schemer drowns in his own scheme [literal] - proverb

expression:

• crying over spilt milk; counting the age of one's dead child [literal] - proverb

expression:

• rushing to one's doom; (like a) moth flying into the flame - idiom

expression:

• the worst goes foremost; those one eagerly await will not arrive first - proverb

noun:

• Shenxian thought (ancient Chinese folk belief in the existence of mountain wizards)

noun:

• spirit of someone on the first O-Bon after their death ➜ 新仏

noun:

• quiver (worn on the right hip; post-Nara period)

noun:

• clay bed-warmer (cylindrical with holes in the sides, containing a brazier)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• catharsis; purgation; evacuation; purging the bowels; diarrhea

noun / ~する noun:

• pouring out (water, etc.) ［しゃか］ - orig. meaning

noun:

• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (Persicaria orientalis); prince's feather

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• off-the-job training

expression:

• rub of the green

noun:

• Monodontidae; cetacean family comprising the narwhal and white beluga whale

noun:

• prostitution (in the guise of a massage service) - From English "fashion health" ➜ ヘルス

noun:

• "ear-hanging" scallop spat, i.e. piercing the resilium to string them

noun:

• lucky bamboo branch (sold during the Toka Ebisu festival in early January)

noun:

• man in charge of delivering letters and packages during the Edo period

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence

noun:

• Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

noun:

• suicide divers (part of the Japanese Special Attack Units during WWII)