noun:

• longtime best seller; book with steady sales over a long time - From English "long seller"

noun:

• ritual prayer; invocation of the gods participating in a rite - Shintō term
• congratulatory address ［しゅくし］ ➜ 祝辞【しゅくじ】

noun / ~する noun:

• taking care of one's health
• recuperation
• covering (with a protective material); coating
• curing (concrete)

noun:

• sewamono (in kabuki, etc., a domestic drama about ordinary people, esp. of the Edo period)

adverb / ~の noun:

• reasonably; fairly; all right; moderate - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• hurriedly; in a rush; having barely finished - in the form もそこそこに - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• approximately; about; or so

noun:

• one cup (of sake)
• (going out for, treating someone to) a drink; small drinking party

noun / ~する noun / prefix noun:

• turbidity; cloudiness (of a liquid); opacity; muddiness (e.g. water, mind, consciousness)

noun / ~する noun:

• disorder; chaos ➜ 混乱

noun:

• blow received by a bystander; getting dragged in to somebody else's fight

adjectival noun:

• eccentric; warped; narrow-minded; perverse; obstinate; stubborn; bigoted

noun:

• eccentricity; obstinacy; stubbornness; (a) crank

temporal noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• dawn; daybreak Antonym: 暮れ

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• end; soon after something has ended
• beginning (of a new year, month, etc.)

noun:

• tent
• tabernacle
• small curtain-enclosed area (off a stage)
• Makuya (Original Gospel Movement of Japan)

noun:

• gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones); gomoku; Five in a Row

noun:

• branch; offshoot; tributary; fork; ramification (e.g. of a nerve, blood vessel, ore vein, etc.)

noun:

• snack (to have with a drink); side dish - polite language ➜ 摘み

noun:

• mouth with a protruding lower lip and jaw
• socket; receiving window; slot ［うけぐち］

noun:

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

expression:

• one who experiences a chronic ailment takes better care of his health and lives longer - four character idiom

noun:

• rare utensil; famous article
• famed musical instrument (e.g. a Stradivarius)
• excellent vagina; formidable vulva - vulgar

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:

• bottle gourd
• ensign bearing a cluster of gourds (used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

noun:

• special version of a product with features that allow it to be used for evaluation - abbreviation - From English "evaluation chip"

noun:

• face sheet (top copy); questionnaire that asks for a demographic profile

noun:

• order; ordering
• beginning; start
• foreword; preface; introduction ➜ 序詞
• opening of a song (in gagaku or noh) ➜ 序破急

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡