noun:

• semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 12.5cm by 17.5cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】
• late Edo-period novelette depicting life in the red-light district ➜ 洒落本

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

noun:

• poor who do not (or are unable to) seek help (from relatives or the authorities, etc.) - From English "silent poor"

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix
• to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)
• to persist in doing; to go through with
• to always do; to have made a habit of - as 決めている
• to take for granted; to assume
• to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines
• to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing
• to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
• to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of

noun:

• row of houses
• every house; each house; every door

adverbial noun:

• all; totally; altogether; across the board

~の noun / noun:

• official; governmental; formal
• public (use, facility, etc.); common
• public (matter, place, etc.); (out in the) open ➜ 公にする

noun:

• early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian - From Portuguese "cristao"

noun:

• snap (e.g. of the wrist in baseball)
• snapshot (esp. of people) - abbreviation ➜ スナップショット・スナップ写真
• snap fastener; press stud ➜ ホック

noun:

• small private school (esp. for cramming)
• private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)

noun:

• distinguished family; noted family; noble family
• family status in the Imperial Court ➜ 家格
• master (of a craft); expert

noun:

• branch; forked road; crossroads; branch road; parting of the ways; turning point

noun / ~する noun:

• ending the climbing season; closure of a mountain to climbers
• closing a mine; discontinuation of mining

noun:

• drunk driving; driving under the influence (of alcohol); DUI; legal category based on blood alcohol content - Law term

adverb:

• for a long time; since long ago; from childhood
• bright and early; early in the morning

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to evade (questions); to reply evasively; to beat around the bush; to throw up a smoke screen

noun:

• very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill

noun:

• small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state) - four character idiom

suffix / conjunction:

• as it is bound to (happen); following the natural course
• though possible as it may be

noun:

• Kannō era (of the Northern Court) (1350.2.27-1352.9.27); Kan'ō era

expression:

• Don't be absurd; That's out of the question; Nonsense; Don't mention it

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "on" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 訓仮名【くんがな】・万葉仮名【まんようがな】

noun:

• scarab (Egyptian gemstone) - From French "scarabee"
• scarabeid (any of a group of beetles including the scarab beetle, Scarabeus sacer)

noun:

• freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium spp., esp. the Oriental river prawn, Macrobrachium nipponense)