noun:

• rotary cutting; thinly slicing into a long strip (e.g. daikon, carrot, wood for plywood, etc.)

noun:

• preserving in alcohol
• pickling one's liver; drinking incessantly; being a souse

noun / ~する noun:

• re-pellet (plastics industry); regrind; grinding plastic scraps into small pieces as a form of recycling

noun:

• first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served) ➜ 後座【ござ】

expression:

• truth comes out of falsehood; many a true word is spoken in jest - proverb

noun:

• pasha; honorary title in Ottoman Empire and pre-republican Egypt - From Turkish "paşa"

~と adverb / adverb:

• click; sound of a camera shutter - onomatopoeia ➜ パシャッと

noun:

• unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin) - archaism ➜ 陰陽道・天一神・方違え

noun:

• boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

noun:

• Osaka Incident; plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising, 1885

noun:

• interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace ➜ 寝殿造り

noun:

• aural highlight of a noh play in which the main actor remains seated ➜ 曲【くせ】・仕手

noun:

• convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness
• bug thought to cause children's diseases

expression:

• someone who was just crying quickly cheers up and smiles; a child's emotions change easily

noun:

• (within) basic fare (of a taxi meter, without being charged for mileage) - From English "one meter"

noun:

• young woman who takes walks, etc. with male clients for a charge - From English "stick girl"

noun:

• karuta game in which players race to grab cards associated with a given reading ➜ カルタ・読み札・取り札

noun:

• coarse tea in which a pinch of salt is added (said to help dissipate alcoholic intoxication)

expression / noun:

• fish in a pot about to be boiled; "person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger" [figurative]

noun:

• singularity (climate); day in the calendar when a particular weather phenomenon is statistically likely to occur

noun:

• dragon's den
• auspicious place for a temple, town, etc. to be built (feng shui)

noun:

• sport that requires a strong willpower and hunger for success (esp. boxing) - From English "hungry sports"

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick; to get stuck; to get caught; to get jammed; to clog
• to be unavailable; to be busy; to be occupied; to be full
• to be piled up (e.g. of work)
• to halt (in one's speech); to stumble (over one's words); to stutter; to stammer
• to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.); to feel pressure; to feel pain ➜ 痞える【つかえる】

adjective:

• fat; thick
• deep (of a voice); thick; sonorous
• daring; shameless; brazen; audacious