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- 土蔵造り【どぞうづくり】土蔵づくり
noun:
- house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud
- 友禅【ゆうぜん】
noun:
- type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process - abbreviation ➜ 友禅染
- 厨子棚【ずしだな】
noun:
- cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子
- 談林風【だんりんふう】檀林風
noun:
- playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧
- 地取り捜査【じどりそうさ】
noun:
- police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site ➜ 地取り・聞き込み捜査
- 分裂選挙【ぶんれつせんきょ】
noun:
- split election (where two or more candidates from the same party stand)
- 鳥追棒【とりおいぼう】
noun:
- stick used to drive off birds (during the New Year's procession) - archaism ➜ 鳥追
- 淡路大震災【あわじだいしんさい】
noun:
- Great Kobe earthquake of 1995 (the epicenter was located on Awaji island) ➜ 阪神大震災
- 散茶女郎【さんちゃじょろう】
noun:
- prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)
- 巻き帯【まきおび】巻帯
noun:
- obi that is not tied but merely wrapped around the body
- 清涼殿【せいりょうでん・せいろうでん】
noun:
- pavilion used as the emperor's habitual residence (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿
- 除目【じもく・じょもく】
noun:
- ceremony for appointing officials other than ministers (from the Heian period)
- 金光明最勝王経【こんこうみょうさいしょうおうきょう】
noun:
- Golden Light Sutra (as translated into Chinese by the monk I Ching) ➜ 金光明経
- 後仏【ごぶつ】
noun:
- Maitreya (buddha appearing 5.67 billion years after the death of Gautama) - Buddhism term ➜ 弥勒・前仏
- 中小姓【ちゅうごしょう】中小性
noun:
- low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)
- 鄙振り【ひなぶり】夷曲・夷振り
noun:
- appearing rustic
- ancient song played at the court
- comical tanka ➜ 狂歌
- ダブル選挙【ダブルせんきょ】
noun:
- double election (e.g. of the lower and higher chambers) ➜ 同時選挙
- オリンピック景気【オリンピックけいき】
noun:
- economic boom created by the Tokyo Olympic Games (1962-1964)
- ボンネットヘッド
noun:
- bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo, species of hammerhead shark found in the Western Hemisphere)
- 孟母三遷の教え【もうぼさんせんのおしえ】
expression:
- the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning
- 三遷の教え【さんせんのおしえ】
expression:
- the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning ➜ 孟母三遷の教え
- 田鼠化して鶉となる【でんそかしてうずらとなる】
expression:
- time when moles transform into quails (second climate of the third month) ➜ 七十二候
- 旗本八万騎【はたもとはちまんき】
noun:
- the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals - archaism ➜ 旗本【はたもと】
- 応援者【おうえんしゃ】
noun:
- supporter; cheerer (e.g. from the sidelines at a sporting event); rooter
- 笛柱【ふえばしら】
noun:
- upstage left pillar (on a noh stage), next to the flute player