noun:

• compartment in a fishing boat with seawater for reviving or keeping alive fresh fish or bait

noun / ~する noun:

• going into a huddle (over); holding secret (closed-door) conference (about); laying heads together in secret consultation - four character idiom

noun:

• troubles brought on by what one has written; incident occasioned by a serious slip of the pen - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of geminate consonant, primarily a geminate 't' from vowel stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 撥音便

noun:

• pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters - Sumo term

suffix:

• having a tendency towards; being close to

noun:

• great purification; purification rite performed twice a year, before daijōsai and after major disasters - Shintō term ➜ 大嘗祭【だいじょうさい】

noun:

• creole (pidgin which has become a mother tongue) - From French
• Creole (person of mixed ancestry, esp.in the Caribbean)

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Edo-period unit of gold coinage ［金目］
• golden eyes (of a cat, etc.)
• splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens) - abbreviation ➜ 金目鯛

noun:

• on-the-sea ballot (votes cast in a federal election by ships' crewmen and sent by fax)

noun:

• quintessential enka; enka with age-old lyrical themes set to a haunting traditional-style melody ➜ 演歌

noun:

• manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) - abbreviation ➜ 漫画喫茶

noun:

• pota pota yaki (var. of senbei (rice cracker) coated with a sweet soy-sauce glaze on top)

expression:

• small mercy (from some misfortune); silver lining of a dark cloud; consolation in sadness; blessing in disguise

godan ~く verb:

• to have a facial tattoo (esp. one around the eye, one form of punishment in ancient Japan) - was v4k - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• sleeping quarters; bedroom (mainly refers to one used by a married couple)
• inner room; inner sanctum

noun:

• pit (of a fruit); stone - obscure term
• core
• tongue (piece of wood used to connect two boards)
• clitoris

noun:

• darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae); devil's darning needle
• dragonfly (esp. a large one)

noun:

• scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer); scapulomancy; spatulamancy; armomancy - archaism

noun:

• truth of the middle (all things are in a middle state, being void yet having temporary existence) - Buddhism term ➜ 三諦

noun:

• row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "a" - Linguistics term ➜ 五十音

noun:

• hand; arm - polite language ➜ 手
• handwriting; penmanship - honorific language

interjection:

• 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand) ➜ お代わり

expression / noun:

• official history (e.g. a state-sanctioned account of history subject to revision when the government changes)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to become accustomed to calling (e.g. someone by a certain name)