lifting a ban; raising an embargo; opening a season (hunting, fishing, etc.); publishing contents; revealing information
fixed period; fixed term; regular; periodic; fixed-term commuter pass; fixed-term deposit
Onogawa Kisaburou, 5th sumo grand champion
star (cinema, sports, etc.); celebrity; star symbol; asterisk; (celestial) star
kabuki; Japanese classical drama
ranking wrestler in the makuuchi (senior-grade) or juryo (junior-grade) divisions
Sarcandra glabra (species of flowering shrub in the family Chloranthaceae); 1000 ryō (an old Japanese coin)
floral raft; flower raft; Helwingia japonica (species of shrub); (arch.) oily perfume applied under white makeup
senryū; comic haiku; humorous seventeen-mora poem
twentieth day of the month; twenty days
handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler
favour; favor; favourite; favorite; patron; supporter
sponsors of rikishi or their stables
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
(medical) doctor; physician
yokozuna (highest rank in sumo); grand champion; best in its field; crème de la crème; cream of the crop
ōzeki (second highest rank in sumo)
wrestler of the third highest rank
wrestler of the fourth highest rank
rank-and-file wrestlers in the highest division
second highest division; wrestlers of the second highest division
third highest division; wrestlers of the third highest division
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
every (usu. with events, e.g. every weekend); each
ranked list (entertainers, sumo wrestlers, millionaires, etc.); program (e.g. theatre)
suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta
ancient Shinto music and dancing
all-night vigil over a body; wake
kagura (esp. when performed at the imperial palace)
kagura performance held somewhere other than the imperial palace
the five grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi))
lion dance; traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume
to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle
front garden; front yard; vestibule (of the ear)
maid of honor; maid of honour
order; command; life; destiny; fate