noun:

• object or shape that symbolizes the vow of a buddha or bodhisattva to save all life - Buddhism term

noun:

• monk who attends to the principal image of a temple
• Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine

noun:

• monk who attends to the principal image of a temple - abbreviation ➜ 供奉僧
• Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine

noun:

• property ward; special local public body which has its own property, etc. and bears the expenses for it ➜ 特別地方公共団体【とくべつちほうこうきょうだんたい】

noun:

• folk song from the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture (used as a Bon Festival dance song)

expression:

• pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand ➜ 見て見ぬ振り

noun:

• purity measure for gold; karat; carat; K; kt
• personality of a person born under the element of fire ➜ 金【きん】

noun:

• civet; stew of a game animal, red wine and various alliums (often thickened with the animal's blood) - Food term - From French

adjectival noun:

• comprador-like; being an underling to a foreign company to the detriment of one's own country

noun:

• red suited tile that doubles the score of any hand (usu. a five of each suit) - Mahjong term ➜ ドラ

noun:

• wait for the middle tile of a three-in-a-row which will finish one's hand - Mahjong term

noun:

• beginning character or characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu (esp. used in competitive karuta) ➜ 百人一首【ひゃくにんいっしゅ】

noun / ~する noun:

• delivery to the wrong house or person (email, postal items, etc.); false notification; mistaken notification; notifying somebody incorrectly

noun:

• flower shower; throwing flower petals over the bride and groom after exchanging of vows

noun:

• crow dipper (Pinellia tuber) ➜ カラスビシャク
• 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day - abbreviation ➜ 半夏生

expression:

• slow but steady wins the race; constant effort will result in success; constant dripping wears away a stone [literal] - proverb

expression:

• you can do anything if you set your mind to; even an ant's thoughts reach the heavens [literal] - proverb

noun:

• getting paid to go out drinking (usu. a set amount to cover the taxi fare home) ➜ ギャラ

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• slanting; tilted; sloping; diagonal; oblique ➜ 斜
• distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood); amiss; awry

noun:

• navel; belly button
• protrusion or depression in the middle of an object ［へそ・ヘソ］
• center; centre; most important part; main point

noun:

• partition; division; boundary; compartment
• settlement of accounts
• preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark - Sumo term
• directing; controlling; managing; taking responsibility for

noun:

• firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc. ➜ 矢面に立つ
• direction of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• self-styled humanitarian; chivalrous person; persons acting under the pretence of chivalry who formed gangs and engaged in gambling ➜ 渡世人・男伊達・町奴

noun / suffix noun:

• company; association; society - abbreviation ➜ 会社
• regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour)

counter / suffix:

• counter for companies, shrines, etc.

noun:

• revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought) - four character idiom