noun:

• sweet adzuki bean paste made of a mixture of mashed and whole beans

noun:

• quick bread; bread made with baking powder instead of yeast

noun:

• type of hanging scroll (made from paper of approx. 130cm x 30cm in size)

noun / ~の noun:

• effect; effectiveness; efficacy; result

noun:

• effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects) ➜ 音響効果【おんきょうこうか】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to deny; to contradict
• to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out

adverb / noun:

• sounding of a drum or hand drum; sound of drums - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• full (stomach); bursting - onomatopoeia

noun:

• singing of insects (esp. in autumn); sound of insects ➜ 虫の音

expression:

• at that very moment; at precisely that time; just when

~する noun:

• to become syrupy; to become thick (e.g. when cooking) ➜ とろとろ

adverb:

• stickily

adverb:

• often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently

expression / ~の noun:

• as a child; when one was a child; childhood

noun:

• drunken frenzy; drunken violence
• person who is prone to violence when drunk

noun:

• parents' day (day when parents observe their children in school)

noun:

• dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)
• pretext; excuse; pretense (pretence); dupe; front man ［出し］

noun:

• rectangular bugaku mask made of thick paper and white silk with facial features drawn on it ➜ 舞楽

adverb / ~と adverb:

• clop clop; rumble rumble - onomatopoeia
• sound of something being boiled - onomatopoeia

conjunction / particle:

• indicates supposition; if ... then; when; after

particle:

• (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation - usu. ったら

expression:

• regretting one's unkindness to one's deceased parents when they were alive

noun:

• barehanded; having no wealth or position to rely on (aside from one's own resourcefulness) (when embarking on something) - four character idiom

expression:

• woman who has lost a man's affection or interest (as does a fan when summer turns to autumn)

noun:

• dark blue gem allowing one to recall memories when stroked with one's hand (allegedly possessed by Zhang Yue)

pronoun:

• that girl; that kid
• you (mainly used by a brothel owner or senior prostitutes when addressing servant girls) - archaism ➜ 禿

interjection:

• all right; so far so good; said quietly (or thought) to oneself when glad that things have gone as hoped - derived from 占める ➜ 占めた【しめた】

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half - archaism - four character idiom

expression:

• as a child; when one was a child