noun:

• crab meat mixed with vegetables and egg yolk, steamed inside its shell

noun:

• crushed sesame seeds boiled in water and chilled like tofu

noun:

• condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile) - Food term

noun:

• legless lizard (esp. Anguidae spp., incl. glass lizards and slow worms)

noun:

• Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo ➜ 菩薩

noun:

• Great Northern War (Sweden vs. Russia, Poland, Denmark, Saxony and Hanover: 1700-1721)

noun:

• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
• clan - archaism

expression:

• wives and tatami are best when they're new

noun:

• waiting for the sun (traditional all-night event of worship and neighbourhood fellowship) ➜ 月待ち【つきまち】

noun:

• Japanese, Chinese and Western (e.g. when referring to food styles available, etc.)

noun:

• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

expression:

• full up - colloquialism
• to have had enough of something (both good and bad nuance)

noun:

• being-for-others (philosophical term used by Hegel and Sartre (etre-en-soi))

noun:

• whipping, stone placement, and shrimp-tie bondage (three forms of Edo-period torture) ➜ 海老責め・石抱き・鞭打ち

adverb:

• much; remarkably; noticeably
• not at all (with neg. verb)
• quickly and vigorously; unhesitatingly

noun:

• people or companies that forcefully and illegally expel defaulting tenants from their lodgings

noun:

• Deer-Antler-Cutting Ceremony (held in Nara between late October and early November)

adverb / ~たる adjective:

• looking cool and collect; with an air of perfect composure

noun:

• small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula, species found in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus, found in Chiba Prefecture and the East China Sea)

noun:

• Prionurus (genus of surgeonfish and sawtail tangs in the family Acanthuridae)

noun:

• travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position)

noun:

• confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized ➜ カステラ・ボーロ・コンペイトー

noun:

• red and black lacquered sake cask with horn-like handles, used for ceremonies ➜ 酒樽

noun:

• adult striped mullet ➜ 鯔【ぼら】

adverb:

• in the end; after all is said and done - abbreviation ➜ とどのつまり