noun:

• vote-assignment; assigning votes (e.g. to UN member countries)

noun:

• Dear Sir or Madam, in reply to your letter ... - salutation of a formal letter of response

noun:

• Berchemia racemosa (species of flowering plant related to buckthorn)

expression:

• here's looking at you, kid; cheers to your eyes [literal] - from the movie Casablanca

noun:

• behavior (esp. in response to an emergency, medical situation, etc.)

noun:

• prisoner (for one to three years under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 徒【ず】

noun:

• sake warmed to human body temperature (approx. 37 degrees C)

noun:

• tomb of someone with no relatives to mourn their death

noun:

• tomb of someone with no relatives to mourn their death

noun:

• Pelycosauria (order of primitive synapsids, now considered to be paraphyletic)

noun:

• person with differing ideology, attitudes, etc. to one's own - slang ➜ あっち系

noun:

• full length of one's arm (from shoulder to fingertip)

noun:

• sack used to filter liquids (e.g. drinking water, etc.)

noun:

• something worn over tabi to keep them from getting dirty - obscure term ➜ 足袋

noun / ~する noun:

• dying of shame; being so ashamed one wants to die ➜ 慙死

noun:

• language game in which extra syllables are added to words - e.g. やきもち→やしきしもしちし

noun:

• stillman; workman who attends to a still (of whisky, etc.)

noun:

• manzai based on comic dialogue (as opposed to a skit) ➜ 漫才

noun:

• place (to run a business, e.g. street stall)

adverb:

• whether one wants to or not; without choice

noun / ~の noun:

• leaving something to chance; drifting; (being) happy-go-lucky ➜ 成り行きに任せる【なりゆきにまかせる】

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to make a diagonal move (in the game of go)

noun:

• beginning; commencement; outset

~の noun:

• first (one comes to); approaching

noun:

• affability; approachability

expression / ichidan verb:

• to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• taking pictures (for a wedding, etc.) prior to the event