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• committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train

noun:

• hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) - four character idiom

noun:

• Chūgoku region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures)

noun / ~する noun:

• crouching; formal crouch performed at the beginning of a sumo or kendo match - Sumo, Martial Arts term

noun:

• portable painting used as part of the backdrop (in kabuki, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• (system of) extending complicity for a crime to the criminal's family members

noun:

• disposing of a case by placing an offender on probation or under supervision

noun:

• autograph or note of authentication written on a box containing an art work

noun:

• quiet place; vacant land; fallow ground; undemanding job; sinecure; life of leisurely retirement

noun:

• rough fence of bamboo, logs, etc. constructed at battle sites or execution grounds

noun / ~する noun:

• airing of clothes, hanging scrolls, etc. (to prevent damage from insects and mould) ➜ 土用干し

noun:

• nobleman's illegitimate child
• product (of e.g. war); (figurative) offspring; aftermath

noun:

• bride's silk floss headdress
• clumps of snow (on tree branches, stones, etc.)

noun:

• feel; touch
• impression (of a person)
• most impressive passage; highlight; punch line - orig. meaning
• beginning - colloquialism

noun:

• hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry

noun:

• ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 如是我聞
• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - abbreviation ➜ 十如是

noun:

• edible flower bud of the fuki (Petasites japonicus) plant, an early spring delicacy

noun:

• double circle; 'good work' (equiv. of silver star awarded to children at school)

noun:

• left-over flesh on the spine of a fish (esp. tuna) or beef - Food term

noun:

• Lingchi; Leng Tch'e; slow torture by slicing off parts of the body

noun:

• understanding and acceptance; spiritual awakening; a heart that understands truth; (feeling of) resignation

noun:

• referee officiating at bouts of rank-and-file wrestlers in the highest division - Sumo term

noun:

• obsolete rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same group of stables - Sumo term

noun:

• economy class syndrome (occurrence of deep vein thrombosis in air travelers) ➜ 深部静脈血栓症【しんぶじょうみゃくけっせんしょう】

noun:

• type of fraud involving phone calls pretending distress