noun:

• in-circuit tester

noun:

• hole in one

noun:

• in-store merchandising

noun:

• set-in sleeve

noun:

• walk-in closet

noun / ~する noun:

• chip-in (golf, basketball, etc.) - Sports term

expression:

• made in Japan

noun:

• in-game item - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• removing a bad taste; cleansing one's palate

noun:

• palate cleanser; intermezzo; dish or beverage to cleanse one's palate between dishes of a meal

noun:

• natural or man-made feature or object on the earth's surface (trees, hill, river, road, building, etc.); object or structure important in a battle, esp. for concealment

noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

expression:

• cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun:

• changing the world; turning the tide
• torpedo modified as a suicide weapon (used in WWII)

noun:

• first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being ➜ 本門

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to recover a cost; to recover an expense; to get a return on one's investment; to get one's money's worth

noun:

• texture; "grain" of a fabric or cloth; direction of the loom or weave in a roll of fabric

expression:

• to make a personal judgment on a problem with little insight; to look at the sky through a tube (Zhuangzi) [literal] ➜ 管窺【かんき】

adverb:

• snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia
• (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia

noun:

• resting one's chopsticks across the top of one's bowl (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism) ［おしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism) ［かしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism) ［わじょう］ - usu. 和上 - honorific language
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism ➜ 法眼
• monk (esp. the head monk of a temple) ［おしょう・かしょう］
• master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

noun:

• The Order of the Golden Kite (Japanese military award)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to throw (e.g. into turmoil); to trick (into doing); to lure (into a trap); to frame (for a crime) - usu. 陥れる
• to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to reduce - usu. 陥れる
• to drop (something) into - orig. meaning; usu. 落とし入れる

conjunction:

• by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing