noun:

• very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash

noun:

• very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash - abbreviation ➜ 御太鼓結び

noun:

• (gen. of a woman) loving two or more partners without favour - four character idiom

noun:

• texture (e.g. chewiness, hardness, crispiness, crunchiness, etc.) of food

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• chatter; prattle - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• lapping (up); slurping - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• sound of juicy food being bitten into - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Ajase complex (feelings of guilt towards one's mother)

noun:

• question time (section of proceedings in parliament)

noun:

• Oomoto (religious sect founded in 1892 as an offshoot of Shinto)

noun:

• system allowing for election of the prime minister by popular vote

noun:

• request to arrest a member of parliament while still in session ➜ 不逮捕特権

expression / adverb:

• as a matter of fact; to tell the truth ➜ 実を言えば

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to breathe heavily (e.g. with much movement of the shoulders)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is) ➜ 見当がつかない

noun:

• pre-cut (e.g. of timber before taken to building site)

noun:

• reading (of a word) that has become accepted through popular usage

noun:

• (of clerical script) horizontal lines ending in a noticeable triangular tail ➜ 八分【はっぷん】

noun:

• third division of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am) - archaism

noun:

• The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu, 512 BCE) ➜ 孫子【そんし】

noun:

• reservation of Japanese nationality (procedure used with children born outside Japan)

noun:

• focal point of a lens behind the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• jack-in-the-pulpit; cobra lily (plant of genus Arisaema)

noun:

• cupronickel (alloy of approximately 80% copper and 20% nickel) ➜ 白銅

noun:

• poor and careless way of living - archaism - male language
• self deprecating first person pronoun

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• the resoudning sound of bells, musical instruments, stones being struck, etc. - archaism

noun:

• theism (as refers to the existence of a personal Christian god) - obscure term ➜ 有神論