noun:

• grand champion considered to be truly great, usually with over 10 makuuchi tournament wins - Sumo term

noun / adjectival noun:

• freely; right and left; active without any restraint; with unrestricted energy in all directions - four character idiom

noun:

• Kyoto-style chopped vegetables pickled in salt with red shiso leaves - Food term

noun:

• court lady with her own private chamber or office - archaism
• low-class prostitute (Edo period)

noun:

• small high-pitched Japanese drum or taiko with its head pulled taut by ropes ➜ 太鼓

noun:

• combined race (skiing event with cross country and ski jumping)

noun:

• dazaifu (under the ritsuryo system, governmental office with jurisdiction over Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• examinatinon with MRI, MRA, etc. to check for aneurysms and other problems - from "brain dry-dock" ➜ 人間ドック

noun:

• hot sake with grilled fish fins (esp. fugu or sea bream)

noun:

• small western mirror with mercury added to the glass (Edo period) ➜ 和鏡

noun:

• Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that... - opening formula of a brief letter

noun:

• miso mixed with sugar and sake, thickened by stirring over low heat

noun:

• sake lees with black or brown specks (from oxidation enzymes produced by the yeast) ➜ 酒かす

noun:

• bitter melon stir-fried with pork, tofu and other vegetables - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ ゴーヤ・チャンプルー

noun:

• maid headdress (e.g. white Alice band covered with lace) - From English "white brim"

noun:

• cassata; Italian layered sponge cake - Food term - From Italian
• ice-cream with nuts and preserved fruit

noun:

• group dating; gathering for young people to socialize with the opposite sex ➜ コンパ

noun:

• original packaging (e.g. box holding several cartons, each with individually packaged products)

expression:

• two things that do not go well together; pairing kintsuba with loach soup [literal] - idiom ➜ 金鍔【きんつば】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pull up; to drag up; to lift up
• to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes)
• to withdraw; to leave; to pull out; to retire
• to promote (someone to a higher position)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to return home

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to expedite the schedule - archaism

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to mark off; to cut off - esp. 区切る
• to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud) - esp. 句切る

noun / ~する noun:

• declaration of intent; declaration of intention; expression of one's intention; manifestation of intention

noun:

• sound of the sea; sound of the waves
• sound of massed chanting of sutras, etc. - Buddhism term

noun:

• cash; ready money; money on hand; currency

adjectival noun:

• mercenary; self-interested; calculating

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• after this; from now on; hereafter
• thereafter; since (then); after - esp. after あれ, それ or the -te form of a verb