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:

• liquid gold (used for applying gold to ceramics, etc.)
• Wednesday and Friday ［すいきん］ ➜ 月水金【げっすいきん】
• bribe; sweetener; douceur

noun:

• favourable position (esp. in horse racing, e.g. in 3rd to 5th place during a race) - abbreviation ➜ 好位置

noun:

• ground stone tool from the late Jomon period (named after its similarity to the Buddhist tokko) ➜ 独鈷

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:

• children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light; Bodhidharma fell down

noun:

• brother complex; unnatural attachment to one's brother (esp. by his sister) ➜ ブラコン

noun:

• unimportant piece of news; news unrelated to major events or pressing social conditions - colloquialism

noun:

• wearing next to the skin (e.g. shoes without socks, trousers without underwear)

noun:

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

noun:

• sending off a customer (e.g. to the closest train station)
• sending customers (somebody's way)

noun:

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

noun:

• person oblivious to the fact they are irritating or inconveniencing others; pain in the neck; pest - colloquialism

noun:

• adding a product line or department to improve a store's performance - From English "line robbing"

noun:

• helicopter money; stimulating the economy by distributing newly printed money to consumers - Economics term

noun:

• government property
• taxes and other fees paid by the provinces to the governement (ritsuryo system) ［かんもつ］

noun:

• warbler flying from a valley to a tree - orig. meaning ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• finding success in life ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• passing the palace examination ➜ 進士【しんし】

noun:

• writing from top to bottom
• writing without a pause
• translation of classical Chinese into Japanese - abbreviation ➜ 書き下し文

noun:

• ginjō sake; high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60% - abbreviation ➜ 吟醸酒

noun:

• side street (often parallel to a main street); back street; alley

noun / ~の noun:

• conveying the will of the governing to the governed; top-down (system) - four character idiom

noun:

• committing every evil; being given to evil ways; following the path of evil - four character idiom

noun:

• the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• resistance; opposition; standing up to
• reluctance; repulsion; repugnance
• resistance; drag; friction - Physics term
• electrical resistance - abbreviation ➜ 電気抵抗

noun:

• resistor - abbreviation ➜ 抵抗器

adjectival noun / noun:

• shock (psychological)

noun:

• shock (physical, mechanical)
• shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow) - Medicine term