noun:

• putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage

noun:

• the principle of not resuming debate on an item in the same Diet session in which it has been voted down

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); Taoist immortal; supernatural being ➜ 仙人
• (in Japan) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C) ➜ 十二律・無射

noun:

• official post; regular post; permanent office
• principal post (as opposed to secondary post)

pronoun:

• I (of someone in government or the civil service)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness - onomatopoeia ➜ きりっと
• cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible
• creaking of a door or oar

noun:

• township-neighbourhood system (redefining the province-district-neighbourhood system, establishing 50-home townships of 2-3 neighbourhoods each; 715-740 CE) ➜ 国郡里制

noun:

• seal; stamp - archaism
• depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand
• (in archery) left hand ➜ 引き手【ひきで】
• obstinacy; stubbornness

noun:

• inconsistently, horribly drawn animated film or cartoon; animated cartoon episode of lower picture quality than other episodes in the same series - slang

noun:

• blue-spotted spinefoot (Siganus corallinus, species of Indo-West Pacific rabbitfish); coral rabbitfish; orange spinefoot

noun:

• milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus, species of requiem shark found in the eastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific) ➜ 平頭

noun:

• Heptranchias; genus of cow shark in the family Hexanchidae containing the sharpnose seven-gill shark as its only member

noun:

• normal style of writing; modern Japanese text
• text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)

adverb:

• gushing out (e.g. sweat or blood); flowing profusely - onomatopoeia
• thump-thump; bang-bang; pit-a-pat; pitapat; pitter-patter - onomatopoeia
• sound of hoofbeats - onomatopoeia

noun:

• finger Braille; system of communicating with the deaf-blind in which the receiver's fingers are tapped like a Braille typewriter ➜ 点字【てんじ】

noun:

• concealed winning hand consisting of chows, a pair that isn't a value pair, and an open wait - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

expression:

• search thoroughly for something lost before you suspect someone of stealing it; be on sure ground before you accuse somebody - proverb

noun:

• dry lacquer technique; kanshitsu; technique for making objects (vessels, sculptures, statues, etc.) from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• lifting one's buttocks (e.g. through exercise); getting a perkier bum; getting rid of sagging buttocks - From English "hip up"

noun:

• opening credits; title sequence - freq. read オープニング - abbreviation
• theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 主題歌