noun:

• sticks used for counting - obscure term ➜ 算木

suffix / counter:

• counter for spindles

noun:

• decorated pottery container for storing the bones of one's ancestors (Okinawa) - called じ〜しか〜み or じ〜しが〜み in Okinawa ➜ 厨子

noun:

• award for distinguished service

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Integrated Services Digital Network; ISDN - IT term

suffix / counter:

• counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such) - honorific language ➜ 名【めい】

expression:

• tit for tat (verbally)

noun:

• pavilion for weapons storage (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

expression:

• parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night) - obscure term

expression:

• there's no medicine for stupidity - proverb ➜ 馬鹿に付ける薬は無い

noun:

• Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata) ➜ 七夕

noun:

• special school for handicapped children

noun:

• punishing a crime to make an example for others - four character idiom

noun:

• to think or act fairly without concern for one's own benefit - four character idiom

noun:

• booklet with homework assignments for the summer vacation

noun:

• tool for scrubbing wood to give it texture, traditionally made of dried grass bound together by hemp cord
• scrubbing wood to give it texture

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be meant for each other (of a man and woman); to be connected through fate; to be destined to marry (each other); to be tied by the red string (of fate) [literal] - idiom ➜ 赤い糸

noun:

• barbed metal weapon for catching criminals (Edo period)

noun:

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; EBRD

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

noun:

• for industrial use

noun:

• earthenware vessel for alcoholic beverages, etc. - archaism

expression:

• an eye for people; the ability to judge character

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wait for one's chance; to wait for an opportunity