noun / adjectival noun:

• practice of mixing things normally kept separate; mixture

noun:

• dish of noodles, seafood, vegetables (from Nagasaki)

noun / ~の noun:

• aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature

noun:

• dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)

noun:

• match-up between wrestlers from different divisions who will probably 'switch' divisions in new ranking - Sumo term

noun / ~の noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• staying out overnight without giving notice; spending night(s) away from home without permission (leave) - four character idiom

expression:

• rain that starts to fall as though trying to prevent a guest from leaving

noun:

• in calligraphy, a stroke going from upper right to lower left with a pointed tail

noun:

• man only used to receive meals from; man who always pays for food - slang ➜ ミツグ君

expression:

• (with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to learn a lesson (usu. from an unpleasant experience); to be good for someone

noun:

• chronixis surgeonfish (Acanthurus chronixis, Western-Pacific species of tang from Kapingamarangi in the Caroline Islands)

noun:

• horn shark (Heterodontus francisci, a bullhead shark from the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• western wobbegon (Orectolobus hutchinsi, species of carpet shark from Western Australia)

noun:

• West African spadefish (Chaetodipterus lippei, species of Eastern Atlantic spadefish found from Senegal to Angola)

noun:

• hairstyle for men and women from early Edo era to the Genroku era

noun:

• ceremonial removal of the coffin from the house (lay person) or temple (priest) (Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term

noun:

• honeycomb toffee; sponge toffee; foam candy from heated brown sugar mixed with baking soda - abbreviation ➜ カルメラ・軽目焼

noun:

• multiple people holding the same item with their chopsticks
• passing something from chopstick to chopstick

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to cut out; to clip from; to extract

expression:

• in terms of; from the point of view of

expression / noun:

• one's second home; home away from home

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to rescue from; to help out of; to save

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be moved to tears
• to suffer greatly (from)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sulk; to be peevish - colloquialism
• to run away from home - orig. meaning - colloquialism