noun:

• person who is ready to comment on every subject; ready critic - four character idiom

noun:

• Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972)

noun:

• lid resting directly on food; wooden drop-lid for simmering

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to cause trouble (for someone); to have an unfavourable effect on (unfavorable)

noun:

• the order forced on Koreans to change their names to Japanese ones - four character idiom

adverb:

• exactly; just; precisely - onomatopoeia
• punctually; exactly on time - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• clearly delineated (of boundaries, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• bow collector (type of power contact on the top of electric trains) - From German "Bugel"

noun:

• rushing to get on the train (bus, etc.) before the door closes

expression / noun:

• more or less right; you are on the right track; getting warm ➜ いい線行く

noun:

• Kasuga Festival (held at Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara on March 13)

noun / ~する noun:

• flat display; stacking something flat (e.g. lying on its side, faceup)

noun / ~の noun:

• transforming oneself; taking on another form; disguising oneself
• artificial fly (for fishing)

noun:

• mound on which targets are placed (in archery); firing mound

noun:

• restrictions on the use of colors by ranks of Heian era courtiers - archaism ➜ 許し色・黄丹

noun:

• boat festival; festival with portable shrines carried on boats

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to pour (into a vessel); to fill (a cup, bowl, etc.) with; to dish out (food or drink)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.) (behavior)
• to get away (fish)

noun:

• customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues ➜ 八徳
• brothel; owner of a brothel

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to treat with medicinal steam (a swelling, etc.)
• to dry the bottom of a ship (to prevent insect damage)

noun:

• the same room; sharing a room; sharers of a room

noun:

• prefatory sutra - Buddhism term
• opening a sutra; beginning to read a sutra

expression / adjective:

• not funny; not a laughing matter; not a joke

noun:

• pointed end; tip; point; cusp (of a leaf, crescent moon, etc.); apex (of a curve)
• forefront; vanguard; spearhead; leading edge

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

noun:

• notched bamboo rod rubbed with an implement similar to a bamboo whisk (used as a percussion instrument) ➜ 簓
• wooden vertical batten