noun:

• puff piece (in a newspaper, etc.); flatteringly exaggerated article; sycophantic article ➜ 提灯持ち

noun:

• place to store a body in a coffin before burial (Okinawa)

noun:

• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• reader model; amateur model who appears in fashion magazines

noun:

• reader model; amateur model who appears in fashion magazines - abbreviation ➜ 読者モデル

noun:

• Okinawan festival held in the honour of the sea gods (honor)

noun:

• person in charge of the brewing of sacrificial wine - archaism ➜ 神酒

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根も乾かぬうち【したのねもかわかぬうち】

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根の乾かぬうち【したのねのかわかぬうち】

noun:

• hotel in the center of the city - From English "city hotel"

noun:

• shrine listed in the Engi-Shiki as of the highest rank ➜ 延喜式【えんぎしき】

noun:

• history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, written in 1743-1745
• Ryukyu islands - alt. name

noun:

• vintage awamori; awamori aged in cask for at least three years - sometimes written 古酒 ➜ 泡盛【あわもり】・古酒【こしゅ】

noun:

• quantity (per carton, etc.); number contained (in a packet, etc.)

pre-noun adjectival:

• The Great (e.g. in film and book titles); The Grand

noun:

• beauty of form or proportion (in a created object); solid beauty

noun:

• cover story (in a magazine); cover article

noun:

• collection of short Heian period tales in the form of poems

noun:

• great mandala (in Shingon); mandala with an image of each deity - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

noun:

• enswell (tool used in boxing to apply pressure to an injury)

noun:

• book cafe; bookshop with in-house cafe

noun:

• Red and White singing contest; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to become old enough to understand what's going on around oneself (of a child, etc.); to reach the age of discretion

expression:

• garbage in, garbage out - IT term

adverb:

• in all; all told