noun:

• prosperity; prospering; flourishing

interjection:

• best of luck; all the best; hurray; hoorah ➜ 万歳【ばんざい】

noun:

• Kannon (Boddhisattva); Kwannon; Avalokitesvara (bodhisattva of mercy and salvation); Guan Yin; Kuan Yin - Buddhism term ➜ 観音菩薩【かんのんぼさつ】・観音【かんのん】

noun:

• pleasant person; attractive person; animal liked by all because of its cuteness

noun:

• ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival) ➜ 霊祭【れいさい】・盂蘭盆

noun:

• slipway
• cradle used on a slipway for launch or repair of small ships

noun:

• silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis, species of circumtropical requiem shark)

noun:

• sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus, a species of requiem shark) ➜ ヤジブカ

noun:

• juvenile delinquent under the age of fourteen; minor in trouble with the law

noun:

• Donaldson trout (hybrid of steelhead, cutthroat, and rainbow trout) - From English "trout salmon"

expression:

• dripping with sweat; doing something by the sweat of one's brow

noun:

• threadfin (any fish of family Polynemidae, esp. the striped threadfin, Polydactylus plebeius)

noun:

• what was said; what it means; origin of a story (or tradition, etc.) - usu. as 〜のいい

noun:

• espresso doppio; double shot of espresso coffee - From Italian

noun:

• time of year when television and radio replace programs (usu. spring and fall)

noun:

• eisa (Okinawan folk dance that marks the end of the Bon festival)

noun:

• tie-dyeing - archaism - obscure term
• heraldic design of a square with a hole in the center - obscure term

noun:

• open-mouthed form (statue with open mouth, symbolizing the "a" half of "aum")

noun:

• closed-mouthed form (statue with closed mouth, symbolizing the "um" half of "aum")

expression / noun:

• only natural; no wonder; as expected; of course; as it should be

noun:

• street with tramline; railroad track
• railroading the opponent straight out of the ring - Sumo term ➜ 電車道相撲

noun:

• woman's level of motivation in fashion, makeup, taste in clothes, etc.; femininity - colloquialism

noun:

• drastic improvement of appearance via makeup; suddenly looking better by using makeup

noun:

• having no end tiles or honor tiles and pinfu (common pair of yaku) - abbreviation - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 断ヤオ【タンヤオ】・平和【ピンフ】

noun:

• hairdresser's room in the residence of the shogun or a noble - archaism

noun:

• private constitutional drafts prepared before the adoption of the Meiji Constitution in 1889