noun:

• in Kyoto or the capital

noun:

• west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore [literal]

expression / ichidan verb:

• to die in (a foreign land); to engage in something until death comes; to do something for the rest of one's life

noun:

• buying in installments; buying in instalments

noun:

• toilet in a Zen temple ➜ 東司

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom ➜ 輪廻転生

noun:

• broiled eel served over rice in a lacquered box; broiled eel and rice served in two separate stacked boxes, with eel in top box and rice in bottom box

noun:

• built-in device - IT term

noun:

• expert in old writing

noun:

• twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun:

• candy fashioned in human and animal forms

adverb:

• in its entirety; whole; wholly - Ōsaka dialect

expression:

• in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se

expression:

• in a bad temper; cranky; crabby

noun:

• Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe; CFE

noun:

• small vessel or bowl in which sake cups are rinsed ➜ 杯洗

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get deeper in debt; to pile up debts

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - sensitive ➜ 麺媽

expression:

• there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

noun:

• wrinkled hands from being in water; washerwoman's hands

noun:

• butcher specializing in beef; dealer in beef
• beef-hotpot restaurant ➜ 牛鍋屋

noun:

• murder case in which the victim is chopped into pieces; mutilation murder case

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting upon (someone)

expression:

• (turned out) all right in the end ➜ オーライ