noun:

• Fuyutopia (government program to help create a winter living environment in northern Hokkaido)

noun:

• koto erected in one's yard as decoration during the Festival to Plead for Skills - archaism ➜ 乞巧奠

noun:

• bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo, species of hammerhead shark found in the Western Hemisphere) ➜ 団扇撞木鮫【ウチワシュモクザメ】

noun:

• use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)

noun:

• high-grade Japanese fresh confections (usu. colorful sculpted mochi in seasonal designs around bean paste)

noun:

• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.

noun:

• platform in front of a temple's principal image, from which the officiating monk chants - Buddhism term

noun:

• dagger; dirk; knife
• threatening quality (in a voice, etc.)

prefix:

• muddy; turbid; murky; unclear

auxiliary:

• be; is ［どす］ - polite copula abbreviated from でおす - polite language - abbreviation - Kyōto dialect ➜ おす

expression / noun:

• situation in which one can move neither forward nor backward; Benkei's last stand [literal] - idiom

noun:

• type of circular or square earth building built from the 12th century in Fujian, China

noun:

• type of circular or square earth building built from the 12th century in Fujian, China ➜ 福建土楼【ふっけんどろう】

noun:

• flamberge; sword with undulations in the blade - From French or German

noun:

• handing over in its present state; selling as-is, without warranty (esp. second-hand goods)

noun:

• Yazidi; Kurdish ethno-religious community living mostly in Iraq - From Kurdish "Êzidî"

noun:

• taking action although it may result in death; acting while being fully prepared to die

noun / ~する noun:

• reading but not responding to a text message (in the chat application LINE) - colloquialism ➜ スルー

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out
• to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time)

noun:

• three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• on the way; en route
• in the middle of; midway

noun:

• charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk - esp. 係 ➜ 掛かり【かかり】
• connection; linking - esp. 係り - Linguistics term ➜ 係り結び

conjunction:

• in addition; furthermore
• above (which); on top of (which)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• in three days' time; two days after tomorrow

noun / ~する noun:

• surrender (to the authorities); giving oneself up; turning oneself in

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• en route; half-way
• on the road; in the street