noun:

• family tradition
• wind blowing from the direction of one's home ［いえかぜ］ - archaism

noun:

• man from eastern Japan (esp. Edo or elsewhere in the Kanto region)

adverb:

• from afar; over a great distance; all the way

noun / ~する noun:

• instructions sent in response to a question (from an embassy, consulate, etc.)

noun:

• (in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt

noun:

• (historical) banishment from one's residence as a form of judicial punishment

noun:

• pattern made from chrysanthemums with disordered petals, esp. used on family crests

noun / ~する noun:

• otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense - usu. used adjectivally as 浮世離れした

noun / ~する noun:

• extortion of money or goods (e.g. from lower year students); shakedown - slang

noun:

• Bing cherry - From English "American cherry"
• cherries imported to Japan from America

noun:

• kid; brat - archaism
• Edo term used to debase people from Kansai

noun / ~の noun:

• eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

noun:

• rumbling stomach; noise from gas moving inside the digestive tract; borborygmus; rugitus

noun:

• Vietminh (Vietnamese Independence League organized to obtain freedom from French colonial rule)

noun:

• in calligraphy, a triangular stroke going from upper left to lower right

noun:

• shaoxingjiu (Chinese alcohol made from rice or glutinous millet) - From Chinese

noun:

• local governmental body that requires federal oversight to recover from its debts

expression / adjective:

• lacking skill; uninspiring; unexciting; dull; unrefined; boring (from being too plain) ➜ 芸のない

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

noun:

• someone who withdraws from society (e.g. hides in their room); hikikomori - derogatory term - slang ➜ 引きこもり

noun:

• kaoliang (strong distilled Chinese alcohol made from sorghum)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to rush out from one's mouth (words, phrases, etc.)

noun:

• Edison effect (thermionic emission from a heated metal or semiconductor)

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• four-eye pygmy goby (Trimma hayashii, found from Japan to the Solomons)