noun:

• scarcity of eligible men; difficulty for a woman to find a man; man shortage ➜ 女ひでり【おんなひでり】

expression:

• being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat - four character idiom

noun:

• grasping one's chopsticks the same way one might hold a walking stick (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; wake-up sweets ➜ お目覚

noun:

• type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; wake-up sweets

noun:

• custom of tying a large mochi on a toddler's back on his or her first birthday

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term ➜ 待婚期間

noun:

• middle of a word
• within a word

noun:

• cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

noun / adverbial noun / suffix noun:

• degree; amount; grade; standard; of the order of (following a number); about; approximately

noun:

• minute (unit of time)
• fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)

noun:

• chairman; moderator; toastmaster; master of ceremonies; chairperson; host (of a TV show, etc.)

noun:

• katsudon; pork cutlet served on top of a bowl of rice ➜ カツ

noun:

• outcome (of a course of events); consequence

noun / ~する noun:

• tendency; trend; drift

noun:

• triptan (any one of a family of drugs used to treat severe headaches)

noun:

• focal point of a lens in front of the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• structural elements (of an offence); constituent external element of a crime; actus reus - Law term ➜ 故意

noun:

• type of sushi with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on the rice - Kansai dialect ➜ 五目寿司

noun:

• slip-guard (on one side of the body of a shamisen)

noun / ~する noun:

• verification of the authenticity of a document (e.g. by seal or handwriting) - obscure term

noun:

• employee of an association, society, etc. (but not of government or a corporation)

suffix noun:

• samurai receiving this much rice as a fee - after a quantity
• offering of rice cake containing this much rice
• person receiving this amount of money as a salary - obsolete term

noun:

• tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea
• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

noun:

• Yatagarasu (mythical raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition)
• three-legged crow inhabiting the sun in Chinese mythology