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New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable (favourable) or lucky direction
untrodden peak
deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades)
getting slightly intoxicated and humming a tune
main road
failed attempt (at a crime, suicide, etc.)
simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)
(not even) for a moment
rapid succession (e.g. questions)
execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
physical examination (given at conscription)
spiny lobster (esp. Japanese spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus)
rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
point-blank range
albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)
going on one's own or one's own way
gibbon (any small, long-armed ape of family Hylobatidae)
referral to a committee
hereditary daimyo whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara
artless but attractive in a quaint sense
documentary examination
Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)
votive lantern in a shrine or temple
(female) private nurse
decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year
betraying one's lord (and going over to the enemy)
member of an entourage or retinue or party
tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc.
pocket mirror
a self-supporting accounting system