Naniwa Bay (old name for Osaka Bay)
hibernation; staying indoors during winter
reader (person); person who reads the cards (in karuta games); composer (of a poem)
sparsely growing cogon grass; short cogon grass
speech; utterance; starting to speak; word used to start a sentence
moxa; Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps)
professional go players' championship series; professional shogi players' championship series
first part of a poem or verse
establishing a club (at a school, college, etc.); establishing a division (in a company)
Inaba (former province located in the east of present-day Tottori Prefecture)
Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale; greenish brown; having a beautiful voice
breath; sign (of something new and fresh); breath (of spring, fresh air, etc.); vitality
European magpie (Pica pica)
evening; last night; yesterday evening
first challenge; first try
Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri); katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae); (arch.) cricket
touching a wrong card (in karuta); buzzing too early (in a quiz); making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant)
threshold (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors); sill
emoticon; smiley; kaomoji
hey!; over here!; OK; gotcha; yep
Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)
offense; offence; method of attack
to act the goody-goody; to pretend to be nice
to that extent; so (much)
morning star; Venus; preeminent person (within their own field); star (of the stage, silver screen, etc.)
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
inside the Imperial Palace; Department of the Imperial Household
lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end
regular game; regular-season game
karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards