Results, langage used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period

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いろけiroke

noun:

  • colouring; coloring; shade of colour; shade of color
  • sex appeal (esp. women); interest in the opposite sex; sensuality; seductiveness; glamor; glamour; sexual passion
  • romance; poetry; charm
  • desire; interest; inclination; ambition

色気irokeよりyori食い気kuike Fair words fill not the belly.

彼女kanojohao色気irokeたっぷりtappurida She is loaded with sex appeal.

あさやけはあめゆうやけははれasayakehaameyuuyakehahare

expression:

  • red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky in morning, sailors take warning; red sky at night, shepherds delight; red sky in morning, shepherds take warning - proverb
そくしんじょうぶつsokushinjoubutsu Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • attainment of Buddhahood during life - four character idiom
おもいあたるomoiataru Inflection

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

  • to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of; to strike on; to hit on an answer; to seize the crux of a problem
しんまいshinmai

noun:

  • new rice; first rice crop of the year Antonym: 古米

noun / ~の noun:

  • novice; beginner; newcomer; new hand

新米shinmainoくせにkuseni大きな顔をするookinakaowosuruna Act your place.

かいこくkaikoku Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • founding a country
  • opening of a country (e.g. Japan) to the world 鎖国

開国kaikokuha日本nippon文明bunmeini大きなookina影響eikyouwoもたらしたmotarashita The opening of the country had a great influence on Japanese civilization.

ちゅうようchuuyou

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

  • about the middle (of an era)

noun:

  • middle lobe (right lung); median lobe (prostate) - Anatomy term
くちがすべるkuchigasuberuold Inflection

expression / godan ~る verb:

  • to make a slip of the tongue; to let something slip
はなしはんぶんhanashihanbun

noun:

  • taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

トムTOMUno言うiuことkotoha話半分hanashihanbunni聞いkiitahougaいいiiyo It's better if you take what Tom says with a grain of salt.

きんじつちゅうにkinjitsuchuuni

expression:

  • in a few days; in the near future; soon; one of these days
がくばついしきgakubatsuishiki

noun:

  • strong feelings of loyalty to one's old school; the old school tie - four character idiom
そでばしらsodebashira

noun:

  • small pillars supporting the main pillars of a torii or a temple gate
あいざめaizameアイザメAIZAME

noun:

  • any shark of genus Centrophorus (esp. the dwarf gulper shark, Centrophorus atromarginatus)
イランごIRANgo

noun:

  • Iranian (any member language of the Iranian language branch, esp. Farsi)
しゅうあんshuuan

noun:

  • weekly ideas; weekly thoughts; ideas brought forth at the conclusion of a week
しょうくshouku

noun:

  • development of a text 起承転結
  • the second line in a four-line Chinese poem
エンドロールENDOROORU

noun:

  • credits roll (at the end of a show or movie); end credit roll - From English "endroll"
しなのきんばいshinanokinbaiシナノキンバイSHINANOKINBAI

noun:

  • Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)
かんとkanto

noun:

  • return of government (to Kyoto); making former capital (esp. Kyoto) the capital again
はなしのほをつぐhanashinohowotsugu Inflection

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

  • to pick up the thread of a story; to resume a conversation
いえをあけるiewoakeruうちをあけるuchiwoakeru Inflection

expression / ichidan verb:

  • to be away from home; to be out of the house
とくていひみつほごほうtokuteihimitsuhogohou

noun:

  • Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets (2013); Secret Information Protection Act
あっというまattoiumaあっというまattoiumaあっとゆうまattoyuumaあっとゆうまattoyuumaアッというまAttoiumaアッというまAttoiumaアッとゆうまAttoyuumaアッとゆうまAttoyuuma

expression / noun:

お金okanewo稼ぐkasegunoha時間jikangaかかるkakaruga使うtsukaunohaあっという間attoiumada Money takes a long time to earn, but you can spend it in no time.

いんin

noun:

  • cause; factor
  • hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions) - Buddhism term 縁【えん】
  • the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya) 因明
ちまつりchimatsuri

noun:

  • killing an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits; blood offering
  • killing violently; bloodbath; victimizing

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