noun:

• high luminance (used to describe bold-face text on display screen)

noun:

• (decision to) censure (as issued by the upper house of parliament)

noun:

• recipe
• prescription (medical)
• how-to guide (e.g. crafts)

expression:

• (with) only the clothes one happens to wear

noun:

• travel allowance paid to salaried wrestlers for tournaments held outside Tokyo - Sumo term

noun:

• physically exceptional wrestler promoted straight to champion rank during Edo period - Sumo term

noun / ~の noun:

• desire to act only in one's self-interest; selfish desires - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• self-reliance; acting according to one's own ideas and beliefs - four character idiom

noun:

• acting according to one's own beliefs, being undisturbed by others - four character idiom

noun:

• natural airhead; person prone to making silly mistakes

noun:

• nonglutinous grain (not sticky enough to make mochi rice cakes) - うるち refers only to rice ➜ 糯

noun / ~する noun:

• artificial feeding; accustoming wild animals to eating food given by humans

noun:

• learning good manners through apprenticeship (to an upper-class family) - four character idiom

noun:

• state of fine weather where one is subject to direct sunlight

noun:

• plastic moulding over cables to prevent damage by wheels; cable protector - From English "wagon mould"

expression:

• moreover; besides; in addition; on top of; to make matters worse

noun:

• era name selected by commoners (as opposed to the imperial court) - obscure term

noun:

• Buddhist image used as jewellery or to decorate one's home - obscure term

noun:

• plant native to eastern Russia and Hokkaido (Mimulus sessilifolius Maxim. p)

expression:

• there being no backing out; gone too far to retreat

particle:

• particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to breathe heavily (e.g. with much movement of the shoulders)

noun:

• artificial food (fabricated to resemble rare or expensive foods)

noun:

• written request for permission to leave early (school, work, etc.)

noun:

• pre-cut (e.g. of timber before taken to building site)