noun / ~する noun:

• capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); conquest; attack; assault
• defeating (an opponent)
• attacking (a problem) strategically

noun:

• advance guard; vanguard
• athlete who competes in the first match of a team competition (kendo, judo, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun:

• obsession; fixation; hangup; determination; fastidiousness; pickiness about (trait, style, etc.)
• complaining; criticizing
• speciality (e.g. of restaurants)

adverb:

• sound of heavy breathing - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• blowing on something (e.g. to cool it down)

noun:

• cheap, easily put together cupboard, bookcase, shelves, chest, etc. made of colored plywood - From English "color box"

noun:

• Romancecar; Odakyu Electric Railway's name for its limited express luxury tourist services south-west of Tokyo

noun:

• train of dress; trailing skirt ➜ お引き摺り
• woman who doesn't work and only thinks about fashion ➜ お引き摺り

noun:

• popularization; simplification; explaining in simple language
• adaptation of history for popular reading (esp. Chinese); historical novel writing

noun / ~の noun:

• inner part of a house (near the kitchen, living room, etc.)
• family matters; household affairs; personal business

noun / ~する noun:

• transliteration ➜ 音写
• phonetic representation of a foreign word using Chinese characters
• reading aloud (for people with impaired vision)

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term

noun:

• carpenter's square (for checking angles)
• common shaku (unit of distance; approx. 30.3 cm)

expression / noun:

• (principle of) letting sleeping dogs lie; peace-at-any-price; don't rock the boat

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen

adjectival noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• sticky; syrupy; pulpy - onomatopoeia ➜ とろみ・とろっと

adverb / ~と adverb / ~の noun:

• weakly (of a flame); gently (e.g. boil); simmering - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• dozing off; napping - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• sluggishly; dawdling - onomatopoeia

noun:

• infectious disease which by law a physician must report to the authorities within 24 hours of diagnosis

noun:

• having sticky fingers; compulsive thievery
• habitual movement of one's hands
• marks from being handled often

noun:

• Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
• black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) - archaism ➜ 百合鴎
• Cinnalepeta pulchella (species of spiral-shelled gastropod) ➜ 都鳥貝

noun:

• carton (e.g. of cigarettes)
• tray (in which money is placed when paying); dish
• pasteboard ［カルトン］ - From French "carton"

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to blindstitch the inside of a fold with (equally spaced) threadings (i.e. pulling shoe lacing tight)

noun / ~する noun:

• buying more than one of the same item in different colors (colours) - slang ➜ イロチ

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

expression:

• what more can one say?; utterly at a loss for words (because of disbelief or disgust)

noun:

• diseases specified by the Japanese government as being worrisome, having no known treatment and of unknown causes