noun:

• wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

noun:

• old-fashioned doughnut; doughnut made with cake batter (as opposed to yeast-based dough) - Food term - From English "fashion donuts"

noun / ~する noun:

• delivery to the wrong house or person (email, postal items, etc.); false notification; mistaken notification; notifying somebody incorrectly

noun:

• feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)

expression / noun:

• having one's own premises ➜ 部屋持ちの親方【へやもちのおやかた】
• Edo-period prostitute successful enough to have her own room in an establishment - abbr. of 部屋持ち女郎

expression:

• you can do anything if you set your mind to; even an ant's thoughts reach the heavens [literal] - proverb

noun:

• gyaru; (young) woman adhering to a fashion trend usually marked by brown or blond-dyed hair, gaudy clothes and accessories - From English "gal"
• gal

noun:

• firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc. ➜ 矢面に立つ
• direction of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• tyre chains; anti-skid device
• backup measure; taking entrance examination to a university in case one fails at other universities

noun:

• official names associated with coaching licenses (105 permanent and heritable, plus those issued to select yokozuna for a single generation) - Sumo term ➜ 年寄

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product

noun:

• bicolored foxface (Siganus uspi, species of rabbitfish endemic to Fiji sometimes found in New Caledonia)

noun:

• sitting position similar to seiza (but with both legs splayed out slightly and one's backside resting directly on the ground) ➜ 正座【せいざ】

expression:

• isn't it great?

noun:

• carnival-like religious celebrations (e.g. dancing festivals) that occurred across Japan from June 1867 to May 1868

noun / ~する noun:

• dozing off in the middle of doing something; becoming inactive online due to falling asleep (esp. during a multi-player game)

noun:

• shigandang; stone tablet placed at a three-way street intersection (or dead end) to ward off evil spirits

noun:

• komi; extra points given to the white player as compensation for playing second (in go)

godan ~む verb:

• to drop into, drop-by-drop

noun:

• from island to island; island-hopping

noun:

• refugee; displaced person
• person inconvenienced by (lack of something); person unable to satisfactorily (marry, shop, etc.) - in compound nouns; ～難民 - colloquialism - idiom ➜ 買い物難民【かいものなんみん】

noun:

• race to be the pitcher with the most wins in the season - Baseball term - From English "hurler derby"

noun:

• arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message

noun:

• batting eye; ability to judge whether a pitch will be called a ball or a strike - Baseball term

noun:

• searching for a marriage partner; marriage hunting; activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc.

noun:

• quince monitor (Varanus melinus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Indonesia); yellow-head monitor ➜ イエローヘッドモニター