noun / suffix noun:

• pattern; design

noun:

• body build; figure; physique

noun / suffix noun:

• essential qualities; character; nature

suffix noun:

• appropriate to; fitting of; suitable for

noun / ~する noun:

• entrusting (something to a person); consignment (of goods); putting in someone's charge; trust; commission

noun:

• plot; intrigue; scheme
• conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act - Law term

noun:

• distance; journey; itinerary
• path (e.g. to one's goal); way; process; route; road

noun / ~する noun:

• actual (as opposed to hidden or obscured); obvious; clear; manifest; explicit; overt; apparent; evident; actualized; actualised

noun:

• mast - From Dutch

noun / adjectival noun:

• necessary; mandatory; indispensable - From English "must" ➜ マストアイテム・マストバイ

noun:

• must; juice of grapes or other fruit prior to fermentation into wine

noun:

• making noodles by hand
• striking a deal; coming to an agreement; reconciliation
• killing with bare hands

noun:

• neurasthenia; nervous breakdown - four character idiom
• concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)

interjection:

• Well done!; Bravo!

noun:

• zenzai; red bean soup made with Azuki beans (style varies according to region)

noun:

• ration-point coupon; traffic violation ticket (for which penalty points are applied to one's licence)

noun:

• former rank in the Japanese army and navy, equiv. to private first-class, lance corporal, etc. ➜ 士長

noun:

• rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil - Shintō term

adverb:

• briefly; in general; roughly; from beginning to end; through (e.g. glancing, flipping) ➜ 一通り【ひととおり】

noun:

• successive generations
• hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) - abbreviation ➜ 譜代大名

noun / ~する noun:

• stretching pieces of a kimono on boards to dry after they have been washed and starched

noun:

• netsuke; miniature buttonlike carving used to hang personal items from a (man's) kimono sash

noun:

• udo (plant related to ginseng, used in medicine and cooking) (Aralia cordata)

noun:

• sata andagi; Okinawan sweet deep-fried bun similar to a doughnut - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning; Mencius' mother, three moves [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 孟母三遷の教え【もうぼさんせんのおしえ】

expression:

• Out of Asia and Into Europe (slogan calling for Japan to align itself with the West) - four character idiom

noun:

• shawm-like instrument played by street vendors (sometimes referred to as a flute) - From Portuguese "charamela" ➜ 哨吶【さない】

noun / ~の noun:

• consuming food and drink in restaurant (as opposed to taking it home) - From English "eat in"

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki ➜ 鮑結び
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

expression:

• having thought for neither gain nor greed; only wanting to do something (thinking about nothing else)

expression / adjective:

• completely helpless; unable even to drive away the flies on one's own head - idiom