noun:

• wearing one's hair in braids

noun:

• The Hundred Days (of Napoleon I); very short-lived regime - four character idiom

noun:

• (Edo-period) guardhouses within the city

noun:

• housing development designed with an eye toward energy conservation - abbreviation

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• in good coordination

noun:

• the good fortune to have been born male

noun:

• period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform ➜ 大化の改新

noun:

• shops on the first floor of a hotel - abbreviation

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the silence; to break one's silence

ichidan verb:

• to carry or bring in(to)

noun:

• the skin (of a human being)
• warmth of the skin; body warmth

noun:

• road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762) - obscure term

noun:

• the last half-year; second half of the year

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

expression:

• with a half-opened eye

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument
• someone's ability to play the shamisen

noun:

• traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven ➜ 短歌
• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century) ［ながうた］ ➜ 長唄

noun:

• Korean person living in Japan

noun:

• seven tea ceremony procedures of the Senke school - abbreviation ➜ 七事式【しちじしき】

noun:

• bowl of rice with a chop-suey-like mixture on it

noun:

• student repeating the same class

noun:

• part of the fabric that is wrapped farthest from the skin when wearing a garment that is wrapped in front of one (such as a kimono) ➜ 下前
• percentage; commission ➜ 上米【うわまい】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drink the cup dry

noun:

• loan shark who specializes in refinancing debts

expression:

• to not see the wood for the trees; to be caught up with trivial matters and lose sight of the big picture - proverb