noun:

• style of building; construction; workmanship; way of making ➜ 作る
• recipe ➜ 作る
• how to grow (something) ➜ 作る

noun:

• winding (e.g. electrical)

~の noun:

• winding; curving; meandering ➜ ワインディングロード

noun:

• hair style with tightly wound curls

noun:

• bare midriff (clothing style that exposes one's midriff)

noun:

• obsession; fixation; hangup; determination; fastidiousness; pickiness about (trait, style, etc.)
• complaining; criticizing
• speciality (e.g. of restaurants)

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢節 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢節 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen ➜ うた沢

noun:

• fashion style heavy on make-up and elaborate hairstyles, used among Japanese rock bands, musicians, etc.

suffix / particle:

• a mere (status or characteristic); implies activity unsuited to (status or characteristic)

expression:

• for some reason or other; somehow or other; by some chance - usu. ~に or ~で

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• serving (of food); helping

noun:

• chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce - abbreviation ➜ 盛り蕎麦

noun:

• opportunity; chance; occasion; time - esp. 折
• folding; fold; pleat; crease - esp. 折り
• small food box (wooden or cardboard) - esp. 折り

counter:

• counter for folds
• counter for items (esp. food) packed in an oribako ➜ 折り箱

noun:

• solitary non-employed person; non-employed person aged 20-59, not married or engaged in study who has no social interactions with anybody outside their family - From English

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to enclose (with); to surround (with); to encircle
• to turn (one's head, heel, etc.)
• to think over; to work out
• to notify (orally or in writing) - archaism

noun:

• eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); eastern provinces - archaism
• east - archaism
• six-stringed Japanese zither - abbreviation ➜ 東琴
• my spouse ［吾妻・吾嬬］

suffix:

• our gracious (e.g. Queen); honorific that attaches to name of a person or thing that has bestowed grace or favour upon you

noun:

• prostitution in which anal sex services are provided by several women in rotation (esp. in "pink salons") - play on 花びら回転 ➜ 花びら回転・ピンクサロン

noun:

• scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters
• writer

noun:

• talented person; great man; great woman

noun:

• China - usu. used in compounds
• Han dynasty
• Han (majority Chinese ethnic group)

suffix noun:

• man - often negative nuance ➜ 硬骨漢

noun:

• casting a coquettish (an amorous) glance (at a man) - four character idiom

noun:

• lacking balls; femininity - archaism - derogatory term
• guy who lacks balls; cowardly man - archaism - derogatory term

expression:

• A wise man changes his mind, a fool never - proverb

noun:

• young man; youth; lad
• servant boy; young shopboy

noun:

• brave warrior; hero; brave man

noun:

• human resources; man-power resources