noun:

• shirataki noodles; white noodles made from konjak starch, often used in sukiyaki
• waterfall resembling a white sheet

noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i

expression:

• (whether at) peace or at war; in peacetime and at war; order and chaos

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching the winning post; reaching the finish; making the goal - From English "goal in"
• getting married - colloquialism

noun:

• self and others; this and that; both sides; oneself and one's opponent; he and I

noun:

• garden soil; soil used in a garden

~の noun / noun:

• best; extra-fine; superfine; unequalled

adverbial noun:

• exceptionally; extraordinarily; by far

noun:

• jumping and slashing (e.g. at an enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items

noun:

• old sinner; elderly man-about-town; older person who enjoys free and easy lifestyle unfettered by social taboos - four character idiom

noun:

• stock exchange member who facilitates trading by matching buy and sell orders (similar to an NYSE specialist) - Kantō dialect

noun:

• weight-loss diet accompanied by meticulous notes about when and what one has eaten - From English "recording diet" ➜ レコダイ

noun:

• getting information (esp. by interviewing witnesses, etc. in a police investigation)

noun:

• winning by opponent's resignation (in the game of go)

noun:

• degenerative eye disorder caused by cloudiness in front of the pupil - obscure term ➜ 底翳

noun:

• credit protection (by seizing assets in anticipation of a default); preventive attachment

noun:

• middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid- character height; interpoint (interword separation) ➜ 中黒・中点

noun / ~の noun:

• inside and outside; interior and exterior
• inside and outside the country; home and abroad; domestic and foreign ［ないがい］

suffix noun:

• around; about; approximately

noun:

• Muromachi-period texts or annotations of texts used in Zen lectures
• extracting from or excerpting (a classic)

noun:

• state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

noun:

• distinctive body odor (odour) of the middle-aged and elderly (caused by the chemical nonenal) ➜ ノネナール

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be moderate in; to be temperate in; to not do too much of
• to refrain (from doing); to withhold (an announcement, comment, etc.)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be beside; to be close by

noun:

• daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) (primarily used in context of the seven spring herbs) - obscure term ➜ 大根・春の七草