noun:

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

noun:

• achieving over 300 runs, hitting over 30 home runs and stealing over 30 bases in a season - Baseball term - From English "triple three"

godan ~る verb / expression:

• to create a debt in one's favor (e.g. by doing someone a favor); to create an obligation in one's favor

noun / ~する noun:

• appeal (e.g. to public opinion); plea; request
• appeal (e.g. sex appeal); attractiveness; allure
• appeal (e.g. in baseball) - Sports term
• emphasizing (strong points, etc.); showing off; touting; calling attention to; playing up; using as a selling point; pitch

noun:

• paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony)
• paper used for writing tanka

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

noun:

• massage and possibly sexual services performed by a female high school student or young woman wearing a high school uniform - slang ➜ ｊｋ【ジェイケイ】・リフレ

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

noun:

• brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area
• miso mixed with crab innards or scraps

noun / ~する noun:

• favourite poem or song; favorite poem or song
• lover of poetry and song

noun:

• landed and tenant farming; landed farming with some tenant farming on the side

noun:

• graduate university; university concentrating on graduate-level education and advanced research; research university

noun / ~する noun:

• dubbing; adding a new audio (usu. voice) track to an existing video, film, etc. ➜ 吹き替え
• dubbing; re-recording existing video or audio data to a new DVD, tape, etc.

noun:

• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being)

particle:

• by (indicating means of action); as (a group, etc.) ➜ からして・として・にして・為る
• indicates patient of a causative expression - as 〜をして in modern Japanese
• acts as a connective - after the ren'youkei form of an adjective
• adds emphasis - after an adverb or a particle

conjunction:

• and then ➜ そして

noun:

• øre; Danish or Norwegian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krone - From Danish or Norwegian ➜ クローネ
• öre; Swedish monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krona - From Swedish ➜ クローナ

noun:

• counter selling; face-to-face selling; person-to-person selling

noun:

• declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared - Mahjong term ➜ 立直【リーチ】

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half - archaism - four character idiom

expression:

• better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond - four character idiom

noun:

• Grand Protector (lowest of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
• Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods) ➜ 右大臣

noun:

• omen; sign of luck
• origin; history; causation
• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - orig. meaning - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 因縁生起

noun:

• central figure; pillar (e.g. of the nation); mainstay; chief support; leader
• chief; boss; leader; head
• master carpenter
• beams and ridge supports of a roof - orig. meaning