noun:

• breaking and removing frozen snow to expose the ground - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary boiling (of hard-to-cook ingredients); cooking in advance

noun:

• smokers forced to smoke outside; firefly tribe [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving water in the bathtub (to use later for laundry)

expression / adjectival noun:

• seeming to have a problem, issue, etc. ➜ 気【げ】・訳あり【わけあり】

noun:

• tossed coin (to a street performer or beggar)

noun:

• adhan; azan; Islamic call to prayer (usu. from a minaret) - From Arabic

noun:

• recommended route for tourists to follow - From English "model course"

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to let something (e.g. frypan, pot) cool down

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to flash before one's eyes (of memories, etc.) ➜ 走馬灯

noun:

• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period) ➜ 釜茹で【かまゆで】

ichidan verb:

• to accumulate one's unpublished paintings or writings

noun / ~する noun:

• living in tranquility; retiring to the countryside

noun:

• retirement house

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to shake off (e.g. rain from an umbrella)

noun:

• land given to high-ranking government officials (ritsuryo system) ➜ 職分田

noun:

• Sei Shonagon chie-no-ita; Japanese puzzle similar to tangram

noun:

• downshifter; someone who has decided to live a simpler life ➜ ダウンシフト

noun:

• promise to repay a debt after achieving promotion or success

noun:

• parts of a building to which electrical cables are attached

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; dead in the water; completely helpless

expression / noun:

• complete ignorance (usu. in reference to feigning); lack of knowledge

noun:

• person who is hard to please; grouch; complainer; whiner ➜ 気難し屋

noun:

• regular respondent to a periodical or radio program - slang

expression:

• don't bother the Buddha, give no heed to God - humorous term

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky - abbreviation ➜ 天一神・陰陽道・己酉・癸巳