noun:

• stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens

noun:

• divination based on laying out various items before a toddler and predicting his future based the items chosen

noun:

• the same rights; equal rights

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun / ~の noun:

• the present (day or age)

expression:

• better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the Buddha you don't [literal] - proverb

noun:

• paper fan used in slapstick comedy ➜ 張り扇

noun:

• the salt industry

noun:

• (Sun Yat-sen's) Three Principles of the People ➜ 三民主義

noun:

• chocolate mixed with other flavor ingredients - Food term

noun:

• living in seclusion; retired from the world - four character idiom

noun:

• implements used to enhance the effect of a play (e.g. props, costumes, etc.)

adverbial noun:

• at the very beginning of one's speech; the first thing (one) says after opening the mouth - four character idiom

noun:

• single person who earns enough to live alone but prefers to live rent-free with his or her parents - From English "parasite single"

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• with a snap; with a bang; with a plonk; with a click - onomatopoeia ➜ ぱたり
• suddenly; all of a sudden - onomatopoeia ➜ ぱたり

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing food (esp. fish) by rinsing it with vinegar - Food term

noun:

• loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce

noun:

• ductal carcinoma in situ; DCIS

noun:

• type of sweet made with bean paste (local delicacy in Kyoto); cinnamon-seasoned cracknel (cookie)
• zigzag bridge

noun:

• sail with the wind at its back

adverb:

• aback

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be shrouded in mist

noun:

• the matter in question; the aforesaid matter

noun:

• arrangement of stones in a garden ➜ 石組み

noun:

• small gate in a mud or stone wall ➜ 穴門【あなもん】

noun:

• visiting a shrine or temple to give thanks for the fulfilment of a prayer