noun:

• cylindrical box used to measure rice
• shape for forming rice
• single serving of rice (esp. as prison food) - abbreviation ➜ 物相飯

noun:

• game of chance similar to rock, paper scissors, where the different hand gestures symbolize a fox, a hunter and a village head

expression:

• when it becomes; when it comes to

noun / ~の noun:

• next seat; the seat next to

noun:

• person-to-person call; personal call

noun:

• peer-to-peer network (P2P network)

noun:

• faraway lands; voyage to faraway lands - four character idiom

noun:

• archery ceremony; ceremony related to archery

noun:

• national census; door-to-door census

noun:

• measures to stimulate employment; employment measures

noun / ~の noun:

• month-to-month basis; month-over-month

noun:

• outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period

noun / ~の noun:

• with an interesting history (story); with a shady history; with circumstances that are difficult to explain

noun / ~する noun:

• becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality

~と adverb / adverb:

• crying; tears dripping; water dripping; grain-like object falling - onomatopoeia
• falling off; falling down - onomatopoeia
• inadvertently coming to the surface - onomatopoeia

expression:

• to that extent ➜ 其れだけ
• accordingly; that being the case; because of that; this means that ...
• that state; that condition

noun:

• closing recital that transfers the merit of the service to a buddha, a bodhisattva, or the dead - Buddhism term

noun:

• closing party (e.g. a theater show); cast party; party to celebrate successful completion of a project

noun:

• briefing a patient about a disease; treating a patient by talking to them - From German "Mundtherapie"

noun:

• catalpa bow; spirit bow; bow used to summon spirits, made of Japanese cherry birch, catalpa, or other wood - Shintō term

adjectival noun / noun:

• having one's own way; giving free rein to one's desires; acting as one pleases

noun:

• Mt Sumeru (in Buddhism - said to be the highest mountain rising in the center of the world) (centre)

noun:

• (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• tarsal (relating to the tarsus - a group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

noun:

• four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)
• four gods said to rule over the four directions ➜ 四神