noun:

• tip of the tongue; tongue tip; lingual apex - Anatomy term

adverb:

• in case of; at that time; at this time

noun:

• incense which supposedly allows the spirit of a departed loved one to be seen in the smoke

noun:

• the bid; the offer ➜ 言い値

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

noun:

• wrestling performed in the presence of the empress or crown prince - Sumo term

noun:

• bread roll sandwich with croquette filling

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• as the sound of surging water
• vigorous; surging; welling

expression:

• even if it means living in dire poverty; by all means

noun:

• residents of the capital; townsfolk

noun:

• the Hour of the Tiger (roughly 3-5 AM)

noun:

• 6th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 6th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• goldfish with a shrimp-like tail ［えびお］
• head of a shamisen or lute (bent back like a shrimp's tail)

noun:

• soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin - abbreviation ➜ 味付け玉子【あじつけたまご】

expression / adjective:

• quick on the uptake; perceptive; intuitive ➜ 勘のいい【かんのいい】

noun:

• decoration hung on the New Year's pine on New Year's eve

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:

• the Seven Deadly Sins

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• in the end; after all is said and done; at the striped mullet's ultimate maturity (when the striped mullet is fully grown) [literal] ➜ 鯔【とど】

noun:

• Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters) ➜ 天師道

noun:

• hot springs bath with simulated natural water supply and drainage; closed-loop hot springs bath

noun:

• on the roof; court nobles

noun:

• The Eastern Church

noun:

• shoji with glass window behind a sliding bottom half