noun:

• (a) jump
• splashes (usu. of mud)
• upward turn at the bottom (e.g. of a vertical stroke of a kanji or of a hairdo) - often 撥ね
• close (e.g. of a theatrical performance); breakup

noun:

• fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture

noun:

• one (esp. of two); the other; one way; the other way; one direction; the other direction; one side; the other side; one party; the other party

conjunction:

• on the one hand; on the other hand ➜ 他方
• whereas; although; but at the same time; meanwhile; in turn

adverbial noun / suffix noun:

• just keeps; being inclined to ...; tending to be ...; tending to do ...; continuously ...; just keeps on ...ing; only - after noun, adjective-stem or plain verb

noun:

• the end; the extremity; the limit; the limits; the result

noun:

• Man of the Year, referring to a man born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

noun:

• Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape

noun:

• standing highest in one's master's favor; monopolizing the affection (favor) of the lord; being the lord's favorite lady - four character idiom

noun:

• blue dragon ➜ 青竜
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 青竜
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿
• large horse with a bluish-leaden coat
• shape of an old pine tree

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)

noun:

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

noun:

• Feudal period (characterized by the rule of the shogunate as opposed to emperor, 1185-1867 CE) ➜ 王朝時代

noun:

• word of respect added to the addressee's name on a letter
• under the desk

noun / ~する noun:

• complete change in public sentiment; leading the thought of the people to an entirely different channel - four character idiom

noun:

• irrumatio (fellatio wherein the majority of movement is performed by the fellatee); face-fucking - vulgar - slang - From Latin ➜ フェラチオ

noun:

• summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 夏越しの祓

noun:

• Megachasma (sole genus of the rare deep water megamouth shark in the family Megachasmidae)

noun:

• yellow jersey (awarded to the winner of the Tour de France, etc.) - From French "maillot jaune"

noun:

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

noun:

• ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar) - Buddhism term ➜ 十夜粥【じゅうやがゆ】

noun:

• Japanese hymn praising the coming of the Buddha (thought to be written by Minamoto No Makoto) - Buddhism term ➜ 和讃【わさん】・来迎【らいごう】

noun:

• sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (often a homosexual or transsexual male) - Linguistics term

noun:

• single chopstick stuck upright into the bowl of rice offered to the deceased at their funeral

noun:

• town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)

noun:

• pogo; dance in which one jumps up and down to the beat of the music