noun:

• blackout (to prevent being seen by enemy aircraft during a nighttime air raid)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• kapow; bang; slap; clap - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• bulging; filled to bursting - onomatopoeia

noun:

• prostitute (esp. just after WWII) ［パンパン］ ➜ パンパンガール

noun:

• unscrupulous sales practice involving expensive hard-to-break contracts - From English "catch sales"

noun / ~する noun:

• stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution - From English "match pump, i.e. lighting a match and then putting it out with a water pump"

noun:

• bargain corner to sell off stock cheaply; cart sale - From English "wagon sale"

noun:

• it is hard to keep one's worldly desires and passions in check - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• movements for sending young people to the countryside in China (1937, 1957, 1968) ➜ 下放運動【かほううんどう】

noun:

• marks to aid in reading Chinese classics

noun:

• homa; Buddhist rite of burning wooden sticks to ask a deity for blessings - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fill one's own pocket by taking advantage of a position

~の noun / expression:

• perfect; complete; thorough; leaving nothing to be desired; more than satisfactory

adjective:

• admirable; charming; refined
• nostalgic
• curious; eager to know (or see, experience, etc.) - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• spinning of cocoons; silkworm's last sleep; transformation to the pupa stage

noun:

• mistaken identity; person so changed that it's hard to recognize him (recognise)

noun:

• se (Japanese unit of area equal to 30 tsubo, ~99.174 m.sq.) - obsolete term ➜ 畝【ほ】

noun:

• night-soil vault; clay pot used to collect feces in an outhouse ➜ 汲み取り便所・壷【つぼ】・便槽

noun:

• another's affair; matter of no concern; nothing to do with one

noun / ~する noun:

• unveiling a Buddhist image
• gambling
• revealing something that is supposed to remain hidden

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to accept an object and hold it reverently over one's head

noun:

• scion; cion; (horticultural) graft
• opportunity to continue a conversation

noun:

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

noun:

• New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor

noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun / ~する noun:

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

noun:

• sitting while waiting; (according to the lunar calendar) an eighteen-day-old moon