Kanji
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dancing; dance
maiko; apprentice geisha; dancing girl
... all over again (repeating the same failure)
dancer (esp. a bugaku dancer)
female dancer; dancing girl; danseuse
visiting ill or distressed people; writing get-well letters; get-well gifts; get-well letters; expression of sympathy; expression of concern
behavior; behaviour; conduct; entertainment; treat; feast
calling on someone who is ill; enquiry; inquiry
lion dance; traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume
end; close; finish; noh dance in plain clothes
to dance; to perform a dance
court music pavilion in a Shinto shrine; kagura hall
(monetary) present to a person in distress; condolence money; gift of money in token of one's sympathy; solatium
visitor to a sick or distressed person; hospital visitor; inquirer
hen-of-the-woods (species of polypore mushroom, Grifola frondosa)
recitative dance
shrine maiden's ceremonial dance (in kagura)
style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period (often with a military theme)
to soar; to fly high; to be whirled up; to make merry; to be ecstatic; to be in high spirits
get-well card (gift, letter); visit to (inquiry after) a sick person
movements; behavior; behaviour; bearing; deportment; manners
movements; manner; behaviour; farewell dinner (given by someone about to leave on a trip)
dancing figure; one's appearance when dancing; dancing posture
lavish feast; splendid banquet; corporate largess; lavish hospitality
dressing oneself (e.g. to go out); outfitting oneself
the end; closing; being done for; that's it; that's enough; that's all
closing up shop (for the day); stopping business; going out of business
whirl of busyness; flurry of activity; being rushed off one's feet; having a very busy time (doing)
laths; bamboo lathing; short kyogen dance, danced to chanted accompaniment
early closing; finishing (work) early
finishing up (a job); selling out; buying up
to flutter down
post-fire visit to express sympathy; expressing one's sympathy after a fire
sake offered to someone; treat of sake
dance done by two persons or more
to dance down (leaves, petals, etc.); to fall as if dancing
visiting soldiers at the front to provide comfort; visit to (gift for) persons hard at work as a sign of support
summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season
dragon dance (in Chinese culture)
dance where a female dancer dresses up as a man (late Heian to early Kamakura period); noh dance performed by a man without a mask
dancing together in unison (in noh, kyogen, etc.)
bath taken after everyone else (in the family)
dance performed by a single person
to swoop down upon; to fly down; to alight
traditional Kyoto dance
to fly up (as if dancing); to soar; to rise
kanji "dancing legs" radical (radical 136)
settlement; winding or straightening up
goods left unsold
pump drill; bowdrill; bow drill
musician (esp. Gagaku)
variety of court dance (Nara period)
clearing of accounts; evening-up of accounts; liquidation
late-summer greeting card (sent from about August 8 onward)
winter greeting card; inquiring after someone's health in the cold season
summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season
royal treatment; entertain someone extravagantly
type of informal noh musical performance
hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; (lit.) a dance under a veranda; off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennōji temple
building relocation (without disassembly); house relocation
water left in buckets on the roadside during the summer for travellers
waterproofing (of a building); flashing; weathering
seasonal feast; New Year feast
festival float
aural highlight of a noh play in which the main actor dances
dance recital praising Buddha, which accompanies the recital of a gatha (in the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism)
being entertained by a maiko (geisha apprentice)
Japanese dancing mouse (Mus musculus musculus)
telegraph plant (Codariocalyx motorius); semaphore plant; dancing plant
geisha and maiko
ending; quitting; closing; ending before one had time to do something one wanted or intended to
tail end; tailender; last person (to arrive, finish etc.); dead last
Euhadra peliomphala (species of land snail)
snakeberry (Maianthemum dilatatum); two-leaved Solomon's seal; false lily of the valley
umbrella polypore (Polyporus umbellatus)
visiting sufferers after a flood