noun:

• expert in old writing

noun:

• twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun:

• candy fashioned in human and animal forms

adverb:

• in its entirety; whole; wholly - Ōsaka dialect

expression:

• in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se

expression:

• in a bad temper; cranky; crabby

noun:

• Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe; CFE

noun:

• small vessel or bowl in which sake cups are rinsed ➜ 杯洗

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get deeper in debt; to pile up debts

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - sensitive ➜ 麺媽

expression:

• there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

noun:

• wrinkled hands from being in water; washerwoman's hands

noun:

• butcher specializing in beef; dealer in beef
• beef-hotpot restaurant ➜ 牛鍋屋

noun:

• murder case in which the victim is chopped into pieces; mutilation murder case

expression:

• (turned out) all right in the end ➜ オーライ

noun:

• ten important Rinzai temples, second in significance to the Kyoto Gozan - obscure term

noun:

• hanging-banner used as ornament in Buddhist temples

noun:

• dish of vegetables, konnyaku, etc. simmered in soy sauce and water until the liquid is almost gone - Food term

~と adverb / adverb:

• in various ways

noun / ~する noun:

• radical change in mentality; radically changing one's way of thinking; radical change in consciousness - four character idiom

noun:

• tabbed browser; tab browser; tabbed document interface; TDI - IT term

noun:

• dust, etc. that gathers in the bottoms of sleeves (esp. in Japanese traditional clothing)

expression:

• many irons in the fire; engaged in two trades at the same time; wearing two hats - idiom

noun:

• free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)