[みや, miya](n) (1) palace; (2) (See 五音) tonic (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale); (3) (abbr) (See 宮刑) ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); (n, n-suf) (4) (See 十二宮) zodiacal sign#1487[Add to Longdo]
[おおみや, oomiya](n) (1) (hon) imperial palace; shrine; (2) Grand Empress Dowager; Empress Dowager; (3) woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child; (4) elderly woman of imperial lineage#3061[Add to Longdo]
[かいろう, kairou](n) corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship); (P)#13524[Add to Longdo]
[おしのび, oshinobi](n) (1) (abbr) travelling incognito (traveling); (2) (See 御忍び駕籠) special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito[Add to Longdo]
[burajiruhiragashira](n) Brazilian sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon lalandii, species of requiem shark found in the western Atlantic Ocean)[Add to Longdo]
[いっちょう, icchou](n) (1) one sheet; one page; one leaf; (2) one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); (3) (also written as 一挺, 一梃) one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); (4) one cho (unit of distance, 109.09 m); (5) one game; one task; (n-adv) (6) well then; come then; (P)[Add to Longdo]
[えじ;えいし, eji ; eishi](n) (1) soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.; (2) term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system; (3) guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there[Add to Longdo]
[わりましてあて, warimashiteate](n) (See 割増賃金) salary supplement, e.g. for work performed at inconvenient times or as overtime allowance usually for so-called exempt workers, i.e. workers who are expected to work a certain number of overtime hours[Add to Longdo]
[べにいも;ベニイモ, beniimo ; beniimo](n) (1) (See 大薯) purple yam; water yam (Dioscorea alata); winged yam; (2) (See 紫芋) purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such); (3) (uk) (See 芋貝) Conus pauperculus (species of cone shell)[Add to Longdo]
[すりばん, suriban](n) (1) (See 擦り半鐘) fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near; (2) sound as produced by this alarm[Add to Longdo]
[すりばんしょう, suribanshou](n) (1) (See 擦り半) fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near; (2) sound as produced by this alarm[Add to Longdo]