noun:

• lintel (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors) - Architecture term ➜ 敷居

noun:

• toil; drudgery
• penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour) ➜ 懲役

noun:

• udon with deep-fried tofu

noun:

• staff with plaited paper streamers - honorific language - Shintō term ➜ 幣

noun / ~する noun:

• Zen meditation; meditative consultation with the head abbot

noun:

• free dressmaking ticket (with a purchase of cloth)

noun:

• decorative paper with colourful patterns or figures (colorful)

expression:

• move with haste (when you have no doubts) - proverb ➜ 悪は延べよ

noun / ~する noun:

• raising out-of-season crops with artificial heat

adjectival noun / noun:

• perfect beauty with no trace of artifice; flawless - four character idiom

expression:

• someone (something) not to be trifled with

noun:

• New Year's decoration with cocoon-shaped cakes ➜ 餅花

noun:

• railway station built with government and popular support

noun:

• ASCII data transfer with XON-XOFF flow control - IT term

noun:

• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - Food term ➜ 蒲鉾【かまぼこ】

noun / ~する noun:

• rubdown with a wet towel; cold-water rubbing

noun:

• Wei-To (temple guardian sometimes confused with Vajrapani) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• consideration; taking into account; sympathy with

adjective:

• bony; tough; plucky; spirited; hard to deal with

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting horizontally into the torso (with a sword)

noun:

• octopus; man with a bald or shaven head

noun:

• place with warmer weather to spend the winter

noun:

• ganmodoki; fried tofu fritter made with vegetables

noun:

• pushing an opponent out with one's body - Sumo term

noun:

• beef boiled with soy sauce, ginger and sugar