noun:

• wooden stick with a burned tip (used to create underdrawings)

noun:

• critical remark; comment
• grade (at school; e.g. A, B, C)

noun:

• obi-tying ceremony designed to ensure safe birth of a child

noun:

• ancient Chinese vehicle with a compass whose needle always pointed south

noun:

• gift; souvenir; present
• curtain
• handle (on a fusuma or shoji door)

noun:

• rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a preserved cherry leaf

noun:

• first number (e.g. issue of a magazine)
• No. 1 type

noun:

• alcove slab; wooden board placed in a tokonoma; baseboard; base plate ➜ 床の間

noun:

• citing or naming a variety of flowers
• multi-flowered design

noun / ~する noun:

• interview
• stage debut; first appearance
• meeting - humble language ➜ お目にかかる
• trial for a servant ➜ 奉公人

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to be brought up with tenderest care in a good family

noun / ~する noun:

• appeal made directly to a senior official without going through formalities

noun:

• rotating warning light similar to the one on a patrol car - abbreviation - From English "patrol light" ➜ パトカー

noun:

• employee of a messenger or delivery service - From English "hand carrier"

noun:

• flyer advertising a sex-related business ➜ ピンク

noun:

• prescoring (recording the music or sound effects before filming a scene) - abbreviation

noun:

• dead silence after a joke falls flat - slang - From English "white kick" ➜ 白ける

noun:

• convex traffic mirror at a road curve - From English "curve mirror"

noun / ~する noun:

• solidarity; banding together and working as one for a common cause - four character idiom

noun:

• flour paste cake in the form of a tube

noun:

• combover; comb-over; hair combed in stripes across a bald pate - From English "barcode hair"

noun:

• bit (i.e. attached to a bridle)

expression:

• receiving a windfall; having an unexpected piece of good luck ➜ 棚牡丹

noun:

• turning off a vehicle engine when stopped - From English "idling stop"

noun:

• precipitation resulting from thick fog condensing on leaves in a forest