noun:

• Jeet Kune Do; Way of the Intercepting Fist (martial art founded by Bruce Lee) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• Asura; demigod; anti-god; titan; demigods that fight the Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology - Buddhism term

noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

noun:

• decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year ➜ 注連縄

noun:

• gluing by hand; gambling without money (on the understanding that losses shall be covered later)

noun:

• type of crime which requires a formal complaint from the victim in order to prosecute - Law term

noun / ~する noun:

• moving forward by sliding on one's knees (in the presence of high-ranking individuals)

noun:

• expression suggesting that the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history - four character idiom

noun:

• offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• lady-killer; casanova; Don Juan
• kabuki actor who has mastered the art of romantic acting

noun:

• bustle; crinolette; patch lining the seat (kimono)
• hip pad (football) - Sports term
• loin guard (armor); tasse

noun:

• public transmission rights (e.g. putting copyrightable material on the WWW or an FTP server)

noun / ~の noun:

• establishing a large lead over one's competitors; breaking away (from the field)

expression:

• the phenomenon that perfect reasoning fails if an idiot cannot understand it

noun:

• allowance paid by the Sumo Association to a coach for each wrestler in his stable - Sumo term

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term ➜ 北玉時代

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term

noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh ➜ 結跏趺坐【けっかふざ】

noun:

• ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 促音便

noun:

• traditional "Chinese" medicine for the stomach (usually prepared as small dark spherical pills)

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• not quite ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• close run; just falling short of success