being bold; daring; plucky; having a lot of guts; being quite nerveless
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
severe; intense; awe-inspiring; biting; bitter (cold); piercing
to have fortune come your way; to become lucky
paper lantern with bow-shaped handle
hemorrhoids; haemorrhoids; blind piles
saving from the brink of death
bowl of rice; single serving of rice; bowl of rice placed by the pillow of the recently deceased
sleeved quilt; futon with sleeves; cotton padded nightwear
to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to drop (something) into
die; dice; gambling with dice; playing hazard; You can never tell what will pop up
elegance; taste; refinement
to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down; to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip
short steps; mincing stride; crotch; groin; thigh
to help a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop
long stay; overstaying one's welcome
5-point card with a red tanzaku; red ribbon card; the three 5-point cards with ribbons (high-scoring meld)
drying rice on a rack; rack for drying rice
to tie up; to bind; to tuck up (clothes, etc.)
dizziness; temporary side-effects of taking Chinese herbal medicine
uncle (older than one's parent)
present given in return for funeral offering
core; tang (of a sword, etc.); middle of a nest of boxes
spangle (species of black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio protenor)
Sun Goddess; Amaterasu Ōmikami
dusky purple; dark purple; eggplant color
to settle peacefully; to work out peacefully; to come to an amicable solution; to become reconciled
cirrocumulus cloud; mackerel sky
Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng)
Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water
room in Edo castle where the shogun's council of elders attended to governmental affairs
to cut off a finger (as an act of apology); to catch one's finger (in a door, etc.)