noun:

• shelf with offerings for welcoming the spirits of one's ancestors during the Bon Festival

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of something floating or sinking in water - onomatopoeia

noun:

• type of clothing; style of clothing; line of clothing

noun:

• faint or blurry way of writing with a brush ➜ 渇筆【かっぴつ】

noun:

• reconciliation of interests; settlement of interests

noun:

• mechanism of action (e.g. drug); mode of action; action mechanism - Medicine term

noun:

• pair of shoes

noun:

• advocacy of consumer rights (product safety, accurate labelling, etc.); consumer activism; consumer advocacy ➜ 消費者主権
• consumer spending; high levels of consumption

noun:

• day of the ox in midsummer (during the hottest season); dog days of summer ➜ 丑の日

expression / ~と adverb:

• taking advantage of (a convenient situation)

adverb:

• with a great deal of effort; laboriously

noun:

• woman of low rank; term of degradation for a woman

noun:

• Act for Identification, etc. by Mobile Voice Communications Carriers of Their Subscribers, etc. and for Prevention of Improper Use of Mobile Voice Communications Services; Mobile Phone Improper Use Prevention Act - Law term

noun:

• an anti-corrosive (agent)

noun:

• panels, planks or plating on the hull of a ship or aircraft

expression:

• early, superficial indications of spring (haiku term) ➜ 季語【きご】

noun:

• twenty-second of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• this art or field of study

noun:

• university of arts; arts college - abbreviation ➜ 芸術大学

noun:

• director of the Dazaifu ➜ 大宰府

noun:

• mishmash of truth and untruth; mixture of fiction and fact - four character idiom

noun:

• stump of a pencil or brush ➜ 掠り筆

noun:

• in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

noun:

• (strict) observance of the Buddhist precept of lifelong celibacy - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• leaving an online shopping session without purchasing the goods in the cart - IT term