noun:

• seat (of a chair)

noun:

• dicing (e.g. cutting up of a microchip wafer)

noun:

• banishment (to a nearby province); the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• random pounding (e.g. on a drum)

noun:

• woman's loincloth (worn as a kimono underskirt) ➜ 腰巻き
• single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath) ➜ 湯帷子

noun:

• sex (as a sport) - from セックス and ラクロス - slang

noun:

• spinnerule (small spinning tube on a spinneret) - obscure term ➜ 糸疣

noun:

• banishment (to a somewhat distant province); middle-degree punishment of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• kagura hall (at a shrine)

noun:

• sleep deprivation (as a form of torture)

noun:

• (lineup of authors engaged in a) war of words

noun:

• wooden rods (square, used in a pair) used in Kansai-area rakugo (e.g. to mark scene changes); small clapper

noun:

• alias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to raise (usu. one's shoulders, with a jaunty, swaggering effect)

~の noun:

• relatively new (esp. a building)

noun:

• courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

noun:

• toe-in (alignment of the front wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the front than at the back)

noun:

• (a) scroll

noun:

• tongue (of a shoe)

noun:

• market trial (of a product, service)

noun:

• rights and wrongs (of a case); relative merits (of a case)

noun / ~する noun:

• extracting bacteria (from a petri dish, etc.)

noun:

• entrance (i.e. of a Japanese house) ➜ 上がり口
• start of a rise (e.g. in prices)

noun / ~する noun:

• studying two lines together (as a major and a minor)

noun:

• acting leader (usu. of a party)