noun:

• affiliated industry; allied industry; ancillary industry; associated industry; correlative industry; linked industry; related businesses; related industries; support industries

noun:

• payment in advance (by bank transfer)

noun:

• winning by judges' decision (in judo) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party; supervisor; manager

noun:

• seasonal word (in haiku) ➜ 季語
• seasonal topic (in haiku); seasonal word used as a theme (at a haiku gathering)

noun:

• era during mid-1990s dominated by grand champions Akebono and Takanohana II - Sumo term ➜ 曙貴時代

noun:

• era during the 1950s dominated by grand champions Tochinishiki and Wakanohana I - Sumo term

noun:

• era during mid-1990s dominated by grand champions Akebono and Takanohana II - Sumo term

noun:

• round-necked robe worn by members of nobility and the imperial court

noun:

• difference between track followed by front and back inner wheels when turning

noun:

• period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92)

adverb:

• suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove) - onomatopoeia
• in a single gulp; in one go - onomatopoeia

noun:

• fish, meat, and vegetables stewed in a thick, sweet sauce of soy sauce, sugar and mirin - Food term

noun:

• feeling apprehensive; feeling (looking) lone and helpless; being down-and-out (ruined); helplessness of those in reduced circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• San-in region of western Honshu (incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures)

noun:

• sheathing (under thatched roofing) - abbreviation
• lath (used as a foundation for a mud plaster wall)
• decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo) ➜ 桟竹

noun:

• crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal

noun:

• performing solo (by oneself); having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled) - four character idiom

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

noun:

• "sushi mat" (bamboo mat used in food preparation, especially to roll makizushi) ➜ 巻寿司

noun:

• Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools)

noun:

• bing-bong bang-bong (Big Ben chimes, used as a bell in Japanese schools) ➜ 予鈴

noun:

• ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)

interjection:

• here it comes (interjection used when lying in wait for something)
• oops!; damn it! ➜ しまった

noun:

• wedge marks in stone (usu. remaining from stone-splitting, now used for visual effect) - obscure term ➜ 矢【や】