noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be related (by blood)

noun:

• bathtub or onsen made of (or surrounded by) rocks

noun / ~する noun:

• removal of astringent taste (e.g. by cooking)

pronoun:

• I (mainly used by working men); myself

noun:

• traditional square chair with armrests and a torii-shaped back (used by the emperor, etc. during ceremonies)

noun:

• express home delivery (by the Kuroneko Yamato company); door-to-door parcel delivery; courier service ➜ 宅配便

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection (easily recognized by its attributive form ending in "ki" and predicative form ending in "shi")

noun / ~する noun:

• completing the path to becoming a Buddha (by attaining enlightenment)

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); (campaign) comfort women [literal] - euphemism

noun:

• being possessed (by a spirit); possessed person
• child or doll used as a vessel for a spirit invoked by a shaman or miko ➜ 憑坐【よりまし】

noun:

• one-click fraud (online fraud and extortion technique often used by spammers)

noun:

• hirudin (anticoagulant polypeptide produced by leeches)

~の noun / noun:

• authorized (by imperial or royal order); authorised; appointed; enacted; established

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• new single (by a recording artist)
• person of marriageable age who remains single (e.g. to focus on their career) - From English

noun:

• sexual intercourse permitted (by a woman) due to a sense of obligation (rather than desire) - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• copying (by hand); transcribing

~の noun:

• influenced (by); under an influence

noun:

• on-the-sea ballot (votes cast in a federal election by ships' crewmen and sent by fax)

noun:

• environmentally friendly farmer (as recognized by law) - From English "eco-farmer"

noun:

• trial management (e.g. by the court)

noun / ~する noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party - abbreviation ➜ 合同コンパ

noun:

• weed suppression (by mulching, etc.)

noun:

• Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)