(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags
miyamairi; newborn child's first visit to a shrine (within about 30 days of being born); visiting a shrine
warding off evil; protecting against misfortune
exorcism rite; purification
red and white candy stick sold at children's festivals
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
taking a commemorative photo
ceremony of allowing the hair to grow at age three
ceremony fitting child with a hakama
obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
young child; toddler; child over 1 but not yet of school age
hakama; man's formal divided skirt
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
lucky; fortunate; timely; convenient
white hair; grey hair; gray hair
to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)
to grow long (e.g. hair, nails); to lengthen; to extend; to reach out; to hold out; to straighten; to smooth out
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute
lucky day; auspicious day; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)
death rate; mortality rate
of good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)
Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604.8.12-1651.6.8), Shougun 1623-1651
that's the way it is; yes; is that so?; is it?
twenty-eight mansions of Chinese astronomy (constellations dividing the ecliptic into 28 positions)
Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); "day of the ghost"
therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
grass; weed; (arch.) ninja; not genuine; substandard; LOL
Genroku era (1688.9.30-1704.3.13)
candy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown