noun:

• all honors; winning hand consisting only of honor tiles - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• yellow soil; loess ➜ 黄土【おうど】
• Hades; hell; underworld; world of the dead - archaism ➜ 黄泉【こうせん】

noun:

• Decapoda (the order of crustaceans including shrimp and crabs)

noun / ~する noun:

• actually tasting a food that one has heard of before

noun:

• Stephanoberyciformes; Cetomimiformes; order of fishes containing the whalefishes

noun:

• cry of earthworms (heard on autumn nights and rainy days)

noun:

• mochi added to rice gruel (15th of the first month) - obscure term

noun:

• Settsu (former province covering parts of modern Osaka and Hyogo) ➜ 五畿内【ごきない】

noun:

• schadenfreude; pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others - From German ➜ メシウマ

noun:

• Tokai earthquake (e.g. of 1498, 1605, 1707 and 1854)

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary boiling (of hard-to-cook ingredients); cooking in advance

noun:

• sex; sexual intercourse; sound of bed creaking and woman sighing - onomatopoeia - slang ➜ ぎしぎし

noun:

• double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters) ➜ シングル幅

noun:

• single width (of cloth; usu. 0.71 meters) ➜ ダブル幅

noun:

• the five home provinces and seven districts of ancient Japan ➜ 五畿・七道

noun:

• United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950)

noun:

• United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950) ➜ 琉球列島米国軍政府

noun:

• armor covered with small rectangular plates of metal

noun:

• newsworthiness; news hook; topicality; popularity (of a topic, issue, etc.)

noun:

• type of iron sword with curved pommel (Nara period)

noun:

• fiscal and monetary policies of Takahashi Korekiyo in the 1930s

noun:

• mixture of air and hydrocarbon gas or vapour - Chemistry term

noun:

• finger-banging (manual stimulation of female genital organs) - slang - vulgar ➜ 手マン

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to flash before one's eyes (of memories, etc.) ➜ 走馬灯

noun / ~する noun:

• establishment of a family registry (separate from one's parents')