noun:

• five colors (usu. red, blue, yellow, white and black); five colours

~の noun:

• many kinds; varied

noun:

• melon; gourd ➜ 瓜

noun:

• kiss-and-ride; dropping a family member off at a station

noun:

• standard motorcycle; naked bike; style of motorcycle having the engine exposed and visible

noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

noun:

• biographical notes and character sketches of prominent individuals, arranged according to place of birth or origin

noun:

• winter-time practice of eating meat of animals such as boar and deer to ward off cold

noun:

• six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning) - Buddhism term

noun:

• great purification; purification rite performed twice a year, before daijōsai and after major disasters - Shintō term ➜ 大嘗祭【だいじょうさい】

noun:

• arm-barring force out; locking arms around an opponent and pushing him out of the ring - Sumo term

expression:

• riding a horse so skillfully that it appears as if man and horse have become one - idiom

noun:

• Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures (all administrative divisions of Japan except Tokyo-to)

noun:

• LOHAS; Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability; market segment made up of ecologically conscious consumers

noun:

• Reaganomics; economic policies of Ronald Reagan (i.e. reduction of taxes, spending, and market regulation)

expression:

• third climate of spring (when the ice breaks and fish start appearing near the surface) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• Asian countries with strong anti-Japanese sentiment (i.e. China, South Korea, and North Korea) - colloquialism

noun:

• Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union (1939); German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow) ➜ 藍摺り

noun:

• sake brewed without addition of saccharides and no more than 120 litres of seed alcohol per tonne ➜ 本醸造【ほんじょうぞう】

noun:

• over-demanding parent; parent who makes selfish and unreasonable demands on behalf of their child - abbreviation - From English "monster parent" ➜ モンスターペアレント

noun:

• pure double chow; winning hand containing two identical chows (i.e. same numbers and same suit) - Mahjong term

noun:

• pure double chow; winning hand containing two identical chows (i.e. same numbers and same suit) - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 一盃口【イーペーコー】

noun:

• pure double chow; winning hand containing two identical chows (i.e. same numbers and same suit) - Mahjong term ➜ 一盃口【イーペーコー】

noun:

• calligraphy technique of holding the brush perpendicularly, lower arm raised, and elbow held away from the body ➜ 直筆【ちょくひつ】・懸腕

noun:

• volume number; reel number; scroll number
• number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.)
• a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk ［かんじゅ・かんず］

adverb / suffix:

• occasionally; once in a while