Meanings

high grade katsuobushi (with mold)

successive teacher

traditional work song of Hokkaido herring fishery workers, performed by school students in modern choreographed interpretations

first knuckle joint

telson

articulated bus

regulation egg

root of a moso bamboo

articulate (i.e. an arthropod or an annelid)

annulosan

atrioventricular node

seasonal affective disorder

seasonality

type of jōruri recitation

to keep one's chastity

in these times

Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (one of the five seasonal festivals; celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar)

Chrysanthemum Festival (one of the five annual festivals; celebrated on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month)

slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period)

auricular lymph node