noun:

• sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top - Food term ➜ ばら寿司【ばらずし】・五目鮨【ごもくずし】

noun / ~する noun:

• self-respect
• prudence; not acting rashly; restraining oneself
• taking care of oneself; being careful with one's health

noun:

• gadid (any fish of the family Gadidae, incl. cod, haddock, whiting and pollack)
• Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) ➜ 真鱈【まだら】

pronoun:

• I; me - archaism

noun:

• (person having) thin or shaved eyebrows

suffix:

• affectionate suffix for names of young men or pets - also 丸

noun:

• Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock)

noun:

• six copies
• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan) - abbreviation ➜ 六十六部

noun / ~する noun:

• eating between meals; wasteful eating habits; waste of resources
• living idly; loafing one's way through life ➜ 無駄飯【むだめし】・徒食【としょく】

noun:

• (another's) daughter - polite language
• young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman

noun:

• outdoor bench (placed under the eaves of a house and used for cooling off during the summer)

noun:

• sky burial (funeral ritual in which the body of the deceased is exposed to be eaten by birds)

noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey ➜ 煙管乗車

noun:

• dammed lake (formed by natural damming of a river, esp. by landslide, volcanic eruption, etc.)

noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; great beauty; (so beautiful that) the moon hides and flowers are abashed [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• historical system whereby the Hida region provided 10 carpenters per village the central government in place of taxes

noun:

• motor cortex (area of the brain just anterior to the central sulcus responsible for controlling voluntary muscle activity)

noun:

• mysterious turtle (an omen of good luck) ［しんき］ - obscure term
• Jinki era (724.2.4-729.8.5); Shinki era

noun:

• "winner" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the most) - slang ➜ 割り勘負け

noun:

• "loser" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the least) - slang ➜ 割り勘勝ち

noun / ~する noun:

• breathing in (of a foreign body, food, etc.); pulmonary aspiration; mis-swallowing; swallowing down the wrong pipe - Medicine term

noun:

• cap cloud (cloud shaped like an Asian bamboo hat that forms at the peak of a tall mountain)

noun:

• menu board (small blackboard on which the specials of the day, etc., are written)

noun:

• fruit of a cactus in genus Opuntia (incl. prickly pears and cholla); cactus pear

noun:

• regional official responsible for rice storage (under the Yamato court) - archaism
• Inagi (lowest of the eight hereditary titles) ➜ 八色の姓

expression:

• the last drop makes the cup run over; too much of a good thing; less is more - proverb

ichidan verb:

• to take off something (e.g. a pair of shoes) and leave them neatly aligned side by side