long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
log; dace (Tribolodon hakonensis)
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
crossing swords; competing against; contending with; fighting against
idle gossip; foolish talk; yarn
Kintarō; hero boy of Japanese folklore, who befriended animals and had supernatural strength; Kintarō doll (usu. having a plump red face, carrying an axe, and wearing a red apron); diamond-shaped apron
Urashima Tarō; (a) Rip van Winkle; fairy-tale fisherman who, after visiting the underwater Palace of the Dragon King, returns centuries later
idle talk; nonsense; fool; idiot; irresponsible; nonsensical
to be a good match for; to stand a chance against; to be able to compete with; to hold one's own
(arch.) slow witted fellow; (arch.) counter-hero; (arch.) lie; (arch.) nonsense; Yotaro (rakugo character)
unemployed person; vagabond; floater; day labourer (esp. on the docks)
hooligan; layabout; good-for-nothing; gangster
cylindrical candy made so that Kintaro's face appears wherever it is sliced; inflexibly uniform; all the same; stamped out like cookies
manager (theatrical company)
largehead hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus); scabbard fish; beltfish
watchman (implies low rank or burakumin status)
point of a sword; forceful debate
It's good to have a girl first and then a boy
hellgrammite (larva of dobsonfly species Protohermes grandis)
stupid brat; mischievous kid; troublemaker
kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature)
Rip van Winkle feeling; feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown
sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword); rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony
long sword cloth bag; bag for long swords
wooden transport ship used on Lake Biwa; vessel made from logs, e.g. large dugout canoe
the world is at peace; (lit.) bows in bags and swords in sheaths
day of Ten'ichijin's first ascension to heaven in a year (the 30th day of the first sexagenary cycle of the year)
long sword with birds' heads carved on the pommel
sickness back; motion sickness bag
karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards
sevenband grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus septemfasciatus); convict grouper
gold-ribbon grouper (species of fish, Aulacocephalus temmincki)
snake mackerel (Gempylus serpens)
blacktip grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus fasciatus)
brown-spotted grouper (Epinephelus chlorostigma)
humpback grouper (Chromileptes altivelis); panther grouper
red-spotted grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus akaara); Hong Kong grouper
yellow-edged lyretail (Variola louti); lyretail grouper; coronation cod