noun:

• awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion

noun:

• clipping (of newspaper article, etc.); cutting; scrap (for a scrapbook)
• cut-out (picture, coloured paper, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 切り抜き絵・切り抜き細工

noun:

• new adult (in Japan, 20-year-old who has their coming-of-age ceremony within that year)

noun:

• Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) - Astronomy term ➜ 南十字星【みなみじゅうじせい】

noun:

• knit; knitted fabric; knitted garments
• nit (unit of surface brightness equal to 1 candela per square meter)

noun:

• mountain folk; hermit
• mountain wizard ［やまびと］ ➜ 仙人
• word used as part of a pseudonym by artists, writers, etc. ［さんじん］

noun:

• standard motorcycle; naked bike; style of motorcycle having the engine exposed and visible

noun / ~する noun:

• caring for (esp. a pet or a small object); cherishing; being fond of; prizing; treasuring

noun:

• Coming of Age Day (second Monday in January. Prior to 2000 was Jan 15); Adult's Day

adverb:

• anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; all kinds of this; this and that

noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

adverb:

• even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is

noun:

• tofu skin; dried beancurd; delicacy made from the skin of gently boiled soybean milk

noun / ~する noun:

• no longer being fond of someone; spiteful words or acts showing that one is disgusted with someone

noun:

• period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92)

noun:

• cloth dyed in a dappled pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子絞り
• pattern of white spots; dapples - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子斑
• mochi containing red bean paste - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子餅
• fawn - original meaning - archaism ➜ 鹿【か】

noun:

• six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning) - Buddhism term

noun:

• ladies' bicycle (of a kind often used by housewives, usu. with a basket in front); granny bike ➜ チャリ

ichidan verb:

• to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

noun:

• apprenticeship in the running of a household; prospective bride who undertakes an apprenticeship to learn housekeeping - four character idiom

noun:

• troubles brought on by what one has written; incident occasioned by a serious slip of the pen - four character idiom

noun:

• fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits) - four character idiom

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of geminate consonant, primarily a geminate 't' from vowel stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 撥音便

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books - From English "head band" ➜ 花布

noun / ~する noun:

• absconding; taking oneself off; slipping out (home) unnoticed early (e.g. from work, out of parties, etc.)