expression:

• people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market [literal] - proverb

noun:

• event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2nd Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)

adverb:

• too; also; likewise; either ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• still; as before ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• even so; either way; after all; nonetheless; in any event; all the same ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• as expected ➜ 矢張り【やはり】

noun:

• sneeze

expression:

• spoken twice in response to someone sneezing as a charm against an early death ［くさめ］ - idiom

noun:

• chickweed (stitchwort) roasted and mixed with salt, then ground into a powder for use as toothpaste - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in the chat application LINE) - colloquialism ➜ スルー

expression / ichidan verb:

• to determine whether something is right or wrong; to make something clear; to settle a matter - colloquialism

noun:

• meat of a fish (e.g. tuna) that is dark red with blood, usu. coming from the parts close to the spine

expression / noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit with a sacred wooden pole on the rump to ensure her fertility - obscure term ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• one clap
• one beat
• one mora (taken as a unit of time)

expression / noun:

• woman

noun:

• woman - From German "Frau"

noun:

• dirty joke; blue joke
• indecent topic; bawdy subject; sex talk

expression:

• in evil, there is odds; there is more evil than good in this world; one good thing tends to cause many bad things to happen - four character idiom

noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance ➜ 大手【おおて】
• one who arrests
• force attacking the rear of a castle ➜ 大手【おおて】
• (opponent's) weak point

adjectival noun / adverb / ~の noun:

• as one would expect
• still; all the same
• even... (e.g. "even a genius...") - as さすがの〜も

noun:

• changing the world; turning the tide
• torpedo modified as a suicide weapon (used in WWII)

noun:

• crest-decorated habutae (silk fabric used as a cloth for lining high-quality kimono); figured habutae

noun:

• large ball; giant ball (e.g. as pushed by competing teams in a school sports day)

noun:

• first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being ➜ 本門

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to observe the reasons and types of faults a person makes is to come to know whether they are virtuous or not

noun:

• general; admiral
• head; chief; leader; boss; kingpin
• old chap; mate; boss; chief; man - familiar or jocular term for addressing a male - familiar language
• athlete who competes in the last match of a team competition (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】