noun:

• rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce ➜ 雑炊

noun / ~する noun:

• extortion of money or goods (e.g. from lower year students); shakedown - slang

expression / adjectival noun:

• unnatural; out of place; forced or faked (e.g. expression)

noun:

• rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame

noun:

• hungry spirit (lacking in people not having drive or ambition)

noun:

• identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin) - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ ひっつき虫

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ くっつき虫

~の noun / noun:

• soupy; containing more broth or sauce than usual (of gyudon, etc.)

adverb / ~する noun:

• shrill whistling sound - onomatopoeia
• reddening or brightening slightly
• rush of blood to the head

noun:

• mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried ➜ 欠き餅

noun:

• allowing oneself meat, fish or alcohol after a period of abstaining

noun:

• quale; qualia (qualities or feelings considered independently of their effects on behavior)

godan ~る verb:

• to perform a small motion repetitively (e.g. picking or poking something)

noun:

• wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)

noun:

• shaoxingjiu (Chinese alcohol made from rice or glutinous millet) - From Chinese

noun:

• larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish) - sometimes read ごんどうくじら - obscure term ➜ 巨頭鯨

noun:

• uroboros; ouroboros (image of a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail)

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to write ruby characters (small furigana above or beside kanji) ➜ ルビ・振り仮名

noun:

• map (or diagram, etc.) folded with a cover on each side - obscure term

noun:

• great idiot; fool; (saying) something silly or stupid ➜ 惚け

noun:

• someone or something that just gets in the way; a burden ➜ 荷物

noun:

• coming late or leaving early time (e.g. on a pay slip) - abbreviation ➜ 早退・遅刻