noun:

• great pairing (e.g. of food and wine) - Food term - From French "mariage"
• marriage; wedded life; wedding; wedding ceremony

noun:

• ancient Shinto (as practiced prior to the Introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism to Japan)

noun:

• Wallace's line (hypothetical line separating the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions)

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

noun:

• samurai and commoners
• normal people (as opposed to people of a high social standing)

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings)

suffix:

• suffix indicating room size (following a number of tatami mats and a counter)

noun:

• road-rail vehicle (vehicle which can travel both on railroad tracks and normal roads)

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a broadly concave tile and near-rectangular decorative cap) ➜ 平瓦・瓦当

noun:

• Delhi Dynasties; the Mamluk, Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyid, and Lodi dynasties of India ➜ デリースルタン朝

noun:

• the three kilesas that poison the heart of man (greed, hatred and delusion) - from 貪欲, 瞋恚 and 愚痴 - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩・三毒

noun:

• paleolagine lagomorph (Paleolaginae spp., incl. the Amami rabbit and the red rock hares)

noun:

• miso mixed with minced great burdock, ginger, etc. and sweetened with sugar ➜ 味噌

noun:

• survivability; military term for the ability to withstand an attack and continue to function

noun:

• having only tiles of one suit and no honor tiles (yaku) - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 清一色

auxiliary verb:

• indicates respect for the one performing an action and politeness to the listener - after a monosyllable imperfective form verb - archaism - female language - polite language

noun:

• scaffolding and temporary roof placed around a shrine, temple, etc. undergoing repair; protective scaffolding

noun:

• thick toast with honey (and often with fruit, icecream, etc.) - From English "honey toast"

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place - idiom

expression / adverb:

• at the very beginning; first of all; before anything else; first and foremost

noun:

• crawling on all fours; getting on one's hands and knees; falling flat ➜ 四つん這い【よつんばい】

noun:

• note a semitone below the fourth degree of the Chinese and Japanese pentatonic scale - Music term ➜ 徴【ち】

expression:

• blessed are the peacemakers; one should appreciate and follow the advice of a mediator - proverb ➜ 時の氏神【ときのうじがみ】・挨拶

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

noun:

• challenging members of a dojo to a fight and demanding money upon winning