noun:

• game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs - archaism

noun:

• warehouse style; house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud ➜ 土蔵造り

noun / ~する noun:

• building a kura storehouse; someone who builds kura storehouses

noun:

• Mikawa manzai; style of manzai originating in the Mikawa region in Aichi prefecture ➜ 万歳【まんざい】

noun:

• Ubume; birthing woman ghost in Japanese folklore
• woman in late pregnancy; woman on the point of giving birth ［産女・孕女］ - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• reduction in the number of vehicles, carriages, etc.; reduction in vehicle runs (bus, taxi, etc.) ➜ 増車

expression:

• deep down; special place in one's heart; in the back of one's mind

noun:

• front of (the main building of) a shrine

noun / ~の noun:

• acute (of the shape of a leaf tip)

noun / ~の noun:

• acuminate (of the shape of a leaf tip)

noun / ~の noun:

• obtuse (of the shape of a leaf); rounded ➜ 鋭頭

expression:

• around the end of (a period of time)

noun:

• character traits of the people of a prefecture

noun:

• disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits

noun:

• throw or throwing technique (sumo, judo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term

noun:

• chanko restaurant, often owned by former sumo wrestler - Sumo, Food term

noun:

• word of respect added to the addressee's name on a letter
• under the desk

noun:

• sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (often a homosexual or transsexual male) - Linguistics term

noun:

• town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)

noun:

• observing and reviewing the effects of a drug after it has been released onto the market

noun:

• (in Japan) 4th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F) - archaism ➜ 十二律・夾鐘

noun / ~する noun:

• excellence (of scenery, etc.) - usu. しょうぜつ

noun:

• Stegostoma (genus of one species of Indo-Pacific carpet shark in the family Stegostomatidae)

noun:

• Hexanchus; genus of sixgill sharks in the family Hexanchidae comprised of 2 extant species

noun:

• PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ スイカ

adverb:

• together (with); at the same time; in a lump

noun / ~する noun:

• going to the capital; working in a government office