noun:

• window with a view of a Japanese mugwort thicket
• poor house; humble house; primitive house

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• garden eel; conger eel (esp. the common Japanese conger, Conger myriaster)

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• var. of folksong; var. of koto or shamisen music; medley of (Japanese) songs

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• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

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• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

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• hemp rope fastened from the bow of a Japanese ship to the tip of the mast ➜ 筈

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• bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza)
• dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn) ➜ 襲の色目

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• WARM BIZ (Japanese government campaign encouraging companies to set their heater thermostats to 20 degrees Celsius over the winter) ➜ クールビズ

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• thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters) ➜ 篠竹【しのだけ】
• Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes) ［しの］ - abbreviation ➜ 篠笛
• sliver (strand of loose fibers) ［しの］

noun:

• person whose physical suitability for conscription in the former Japanese military could not be determined in that year (e.g. due to illness)

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• New Komeito (Japanese political party); New Clean Government Party; Justice Party

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• rugosa rose (Rosa rugosa); Japanese rose; Ramanas rose

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• Meiji Constitution (Constitution of the Empire of Japan); Former Japanese Constitution - abbreviation ➜ 大日本帝国憲法

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• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

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• main course (of a formal meal)
• extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs) - abbreviation ➜ 本膳料理

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• very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar) - four character idiom

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• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

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• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

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• city pop; Japanese music genre popular in the 1980's

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• horse mackerel (Carangidae spp., esp. the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus); jack mackerel; pompano; scad

noun:

• first tone in old Chinese phonetics; level tone
• (of a Japanese accent) having a low, flat tone

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to dish up; to fill (a bowl) with
• to pile up; to heap up; to fill up; to stack up
• to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to prescribe
• to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
• to mark out (e.g. scale); to graduate (e.g. thermometer)
• to exaggerate; to apply heavy makeup - slang

noun:

• catalpa bow; spirit bow; bow used to summon spirits, made of Japanese cherry birch, catalpa, or other wood - Shintō term

noun:

• Potsdam Orders (commands made after the Japanese surrender based on the demands of the Potsdam Declaration) ➜ ポツダム宣言

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• former residence status in Japan for foreign students in Japanese language schools and vocational schools (abolished in 2010)