noun:

• dish consisting of bony fish parts boiled in soy sauce

noun:

• seller of high-quality sake; (Meiji or Taisho era) brothel

noun:

• porcupine (any mammal of suborder Hystricomorpha)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• clear; translucent; brilliant; sweetly ringing (as the tinklings of jade)

noun:

• nock of an arrow
• forked tool used for hanging scrolls

noun:

• Sagittaria trifolia var. edulis (edible variant of threeleaf arrowhead)

noun:

• Japanese pronunciation of a kanji (based on adopted Chinese pronunciations) ➜ 音読み

noun:

• ball of bean paste covered with a kudzu starch glaze

noun / ~する noun:

• (of a couple) fighting and splitting up

noun:

• bonus paid to employees on occasion of a full house

noun:

• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)

noun:

• booth or stall in front of a home

noun:

• dharmakaya (dharma body, Buddhism's highest form of existence) - Buddhism term ➜ 三身

noun:

• while being out of the office or away from home

noun:

• bowing while pressing three fingers of each hand on floor

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• old-fashioned; behind the times; out of date

noun:

• learning by ear
• memory of having heard something before ➜ 聞き覚えがある

noun:

• retentive memory
• double-woven edge of cloth
• cryptotia; pocket ear

noun:

• fortunetelling based on writing or pronunciation of one's name - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• ember; brand; stub (of used candle, match etc.)

noun:

• belt used for back support after fifth month of pregnancy

noun:

• combination (e.g. of foodstuffs)
• dovetailing; fitting together

noun:

• Japanese version of baseball played with a hard rubber ball - Sports term ➜ 硬式野球

noun:

• wind-scattered dust; windblown sand
• worldly affairs; cares of life

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to perform religious rites for the repose of a soul