noun:

• office in Heian Kyoto responsible for police and judicial duties - obscure term

noun:

• careful and thorough person
• older male in an homosexual relationship ［ねんじゃ］ ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】

noun:

• butoh; style of contemporary Japanese dance featuring dancers in white paint

noun:

• safety belt (typically used in Japanese construction work); fall-prevention harness

noun:

• place in a TV program; television spot

noun:

• Aulonocranus dewindti (cichlid fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika in E. Africa)

noun:

• Eviota korechika (species of pygmy goby found in Japan and Indonesia)

noun:

• Trimma grammistes (species of small goby found in Japan and Taiwan)

noun:

• Eviota lacrimae (species of pygmy goby found in Japan and Tonga)

noun:

• imperial censor; ancient Chinese official in charge of inspecting other officials

noun:

• one scene (e.g. in a movie)

noun:

• words used to describe tempo, dynamics, etc. in music; musical terminology

noun:

• female servant hired at a lady-in-waiting's own expense - archaism

noun:

• pavilion housing imperial treasures and historical artifacts (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

noun:

• fine white noodles served flowing in a small flume ➜ 素麺

expression:

• in any way; to some extent; even if only a little

noun / ~の noun:

• frivolity; unpredictability; erraticism
• first-time guest in a red-light district

noun:

• ghost image; unexpected appearance of something unwanted in a photograph, etc.

noun:

• mid-sized store
• middle-class brothel (in a red-light district)

noun:

• pressure suppression (e.g. pool, container in a nuclear power plant)

noun:

• straw boat for one's ancestral spirits to sail in

noun:

• self-introduction (of a character in noh theatre) ➜ 名乗り

noun:

• nil return; nothing offered (e.g. in wage negotiations)

noun:

• rice ball wrapped in pickled leaf mustard greens ➜ 高菜・目を見張る

noun / ~する noun:

• coming from far away to participate in a game, war, etc.