noun:

• overhead ladder; horizontal ladder; monkey bars
• yunti (scaling ladder used for escalade in ancient China)

noun:

• Korean flute (horizontal bamboo flute with six holes; highest-pitched flute used in gagaku)

noun:

• without touching; no touching - From English "no touch"
• not participating in; not being concerned by; without being involved in

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds)

noun:

• first business conducted by retailers in the New Year ➜ 初買い

noun:

• bitter enemies (placed by fate) in the same boat - four character idiom ➜ 呉越【ごえつ】

noun:

• (belief in the desirability of) education by rote learning

noun:

• (punishment by being placed in a) water-filled chamber

noun:

• bringing ruin upon oneself by extravagance in food ➜ 大阪の食い倒れ

noun:

• ritual jades worn by feudal lords in ancient China - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• participating in something by merely following the leaders - four character idiom

noun:

• deconstruction (as in the term coined by Jacques Derrida)

noun:

• oval gold coin struck by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1588

noun / ~する noun:

• obtaining agreement by consultation; matters settled in an interview

noun:

• New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors) ➜ 年玉

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term ➜ 北玉時代

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term

noun:

• Sunni Triangle (area of Iraq bounded by Baghdad, Ramadi and Tikrit)

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides and no ran ➜ 襴

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil

noun:

• moon, snow and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi) ➜ 雪月花

noun:

• length and width; length and breadth; lengthwise and crosswise; longitude and latitude; vertical and horizontal
• four cardinal points; every direction ［じゅうおう］
• as one wishes; as one pleases; at will ［じゅうおう］
• warp and weft; warp and woof ［たてよこ］ ➜ 経緯【たてよこ】

adverb / expression:

• before or since; neither before nor after; no other time in one's life; stressing a particular moment or event as being unique or most extreme

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be struck by a chance blow; to be embroiled in; to be caught up in; to be dragged into

noun:

• food (esp. chicken and vegetables) boiled in plain water (or sometimes dashi, etc.) and served with dipping sauce (esp. ponzu) - Food term