adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• originally; primarily
• essentially; naturally; by nature; in (and of) itself
• proper; legal

noun / ~する noun:

• devoting oneself to; concentrating on; commitment; admiration; adoration
• tipping over and collapsing - orig. meaning - archaism

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging - four character idiom

noun:

• okonomiyaki; savoury pancake containing meat or seafood and vegetables

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• stiff (atmosphere, manner, etc.); cold; unfriendly; unsociable; edgy - onomatopoeia
• thin and bony; scrawny - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Kodama; slowest Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (stopping at all stations) ➜ ひかり・のぞみ

noun:

• caliph; chief civil and religious Muslim ruler (prior to 1924)

noun:

• active substance from plants used in manufacture of soap, detergents and medication - From German "Saponin"

noun:

• piroshki (Russian pierogi; meat and eggs, etc. baked in bread) - From Russian "pirozhki"

noun:

• smoke and fumes (e.g. from cooking)
• beacon; skyrocket; signal fire
• fireworks

noun:

• Garuda or Garua (man-bird deity and 'vahana' of Hindu-Buddhist myth)

expression:

• sweet words only please a fool; flattery works on puppets and fools - proverb

noun:

• life-and-death matter; an emergency or crisis where survival is threatened - four character idiom

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
• punctuation - abbreviation ➜ 句読点
• way of reading (esp. kanbun)

noun:

• family chart and personal history - esp. for お見合い

noun:

• Tokai region of Honshu (incl. Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie and southern Gifu prefectures)

noun:

• yōkan; jellied dessert made from red bean paste, agar, and sugar

noun:

• Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised)

noun:

• drink made of boiled water poured over preserved cherry leaves and blossoms

noun:

• vinegar, soy sauce and mirin (or sugar) mixed in roughly equal proportions ➜ 合わせ酢

noun:

• syrup-covered anko (bean jam) and fruit; mitsumame mixed with an(ko) - from 餡 and 蜜豆 - Food term

noun:

• one full game (consisting of east, south, west, and north rounds) - Mahjong term - From Chinese "yizhuang" ➜ 半荘

noun:

• overcoat with very simple lines and no shoulder pads, etc. (from: unconstructed) - abbreviation

noun:

• Arts and Crafts Movement

noun:

• era during mid-1990s dominated by grand champions Akebono and Takanohana II - Sumo term ➜ 曙貴時代