noun:

• Nozomi; fastest Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (stopping only at largest stations) ➜ こだま・ひかり

noun:

• topcoat; light overcoat for use in spring and autumn - From English "spring coat"

noun / ~する noun:

• spiritual peace and enlightenment; keeping an unperturbed mind through faith - four character idiom

noun:

• loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce

noun:

• study of plants, minerals, and animals for use in Chinese medicine; herbalism; pharmacognosy

noun / ~する noun:

• toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour) - four character idiom

noun:

• Chūgoku region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures)

noun:

• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

adverb:

• bound hand and foot; hedged in (e.g. by restrictions); immobile

noun / ~する noun:

• airing of clothes, hanging scrolls, etc. (to prevent damage from insects and mould) ➜ 土用干し

noun:

• heated stone (wrapped in cloth and kept next to the body for warmth)

noun:

• hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry

noun:

• Asama-Sanso incident (famous hostage crisis and police siege in Feb. 1972)

noun:

• facility that serves meals and provides rooms for short-stay or overnight guests - abbreviation - From English "restaurant hotel" ➜ レストランホテル

noun:

• referee officiating at bouts of rank-and-file wrestlers in the highest division - Sumo term

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• perception through the six senses (of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and consciousness) - four character idiom

noun:

• high mountains and running water; the beauty of nature - four character idiom
• beautifully (skillfully) played music

noun:

• being excused from various levies and taxes during the age of militarist government - four character idiom

noun:

• elegant appreciation of nature through artistic pursuits such as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• dogcatcher; person who used to catch dogs and execute them for rabies prevention - slang

noun:

• beautiful white-skinned lady (usu. wrt to freckle removal and skin whitening products)