noun:

• boiled greens in bonito-flavoured soy sauce (vegetable side dish) - Food term

noun:

• dessert (esp. in Italian cuisine); sweets; cake - From Italian "dolce"

adverb:

• dolce; (to be performed) gently and sweetly - Music term - From Italian

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• outspoken; arguing (heatedly) what one believes in; insisting on something without restraint - four character idiom

noun:

• giving lessons at pupils' homes
• going to train in stable other than your own - Sumo term

noun:

• mid-sized konoshiro gizzard shad (i.e. about 15 cm in size) ➜ 鮗

noun:

• salvation by faith in Amitabha - four character idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 阿弥陀
• relying upon others for attaining one's own objective - four character idiom

noun:

• old maid (card game)
• living without one's mother-in-law - slang

noun:

• loach stew; loaches boiled in soy sauce with stewed eggs and slivered burdock root - Food term ➜ 泥鰌

noun:

• oshizushi; sushi rice and other ingredients pressed in box or mould (mold) - Food term

noun:

• kakekotoba; pivot word; play on words (esp. in poetry); pun

noun:

• plastic tunnel crop cultivation; growing crops in long barrel-roofed vinyl greenhouses

noun / adjectival noun:

• freely; right and left; active without any restraint; with unrestricted energy in all directions - four character idiom

noun:

• Kyoto-style chopped vegetables pickled in salt with red shiso leaves - Food term

noun:

• hijiki (dark edible seaweed usu. sold in dried black strips; Hizikia fusiformis)

noun:

• new money; nouveau riche; person who has amassed substantial wealth in his lifetime - four character idiom

noun:

• cards with words or phrases written on them, used in Japanese karuta games ➜ 取り札

noun:

• aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement ➜ 閑寂枯淡

noun:

• simple meal eaten before tea is served ➜ 茶懐石
• sophisticated traditional Japanese cuisine brought in courses ➜ 懐石料理

noun:

• hardy rubber tree (near-threatened species often used in Chinese medicine, Eucommia ulmoides) ➜ トチュウ科

noun:

• lusterleaf holly (Ilex latifolia)
• pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon) ➜ 貝多羅葉

noun:

• polite Japanese as used by young part-time employees in restaurants, etc. - derogatory term ➜ バイト・敬語

noun / prefix noun:

• China (sometimes also used in ref. to Korea or other foreign countries) - archaism

noun:

• bullseye pygmy goby (Trimma tauroculum, found in Palau)

noun:

• striped cotton fabric imported from Sao Tome, also copied in Japan

noun:

• society in which individuals are isolated and have weak personal links between each other