noun:

• diverse arguments arising in great numbers - four character idiom

noun:

• person in the online community who seeks to identify others from the information they post online, or who tries to identify places and objects that appear in comics or games - derogatory term - slang

noun:

• eel and cucumber salad, finely sliced, dressed in sake, soy, and vinegar - Food term

noun:

• clapping one's hands in prayer (at a shrine) ➜ 拍手【はくしゅ】

expression:

• in this way; along these lines; similarly

noun / suffix noun:

• fish pickled in rice-bran paste (esp. mackerel)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to succeed in doing; to manage to do; to finish doing - usu. aux. verb

adverb:

• holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

noun:

• obfuscated style of Japanese text, used particularly by young women in keitai emails

noun:

• votive tablet depicting a math puzzle given in devotion to a shrine or temple by a wasan mathematician ➜ 和算【わさん】

noun:

• children's game in which a wooden stick driven into the ground is dislodged by sticks thrown at it ➜ 根っ木

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to participate in (as a member); to get involved in - idiom

expression:

• in comparison with; when compared with; according to; in light of; in view of ➜ に照らすと

noun / ~の noun:

• in operation (of a machine, especially security cameras); in use; in action

noun:

• paid-in capital

noun:

• carrying over a bill from one Diet session to the next, being deliberated by a committee in the interim

noun / ~する noun:

• occurring in succession

noun:

• being stationed or resident in the USA

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rub in; to smear on; to spread on; to daub
• to lay the blame on ➜ 擦り付ける【なすりつける】

noun:

• court official in charge of entertaining important guests - archaism

noun:

• going downstream in a boat ➜ 川下り【かわくだり】

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮寺

noun:

• couple in which the wife is bigger than the husband

~の noun / noun:

• once in one's life; once in a lifetime - four character idiom