noun:

• in these times; in times likes these; the season being what it is ➜ 時節柄

noun:

• circuit box

noun:

• subprime lending in housing mortage market; housing loans to low-income, high-risk consumers

noun:

• rice gruel served in temples for ten-night memorial services - Buddhism term ➜ 十夜【じゅうや】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to get entangled in; to be involved in; to be embroiled in; to get mixed up in

noun:

• combined umbrella and halberd carried on floats in some festivals

noun:

• multi-tiered food box; stacked boxes - abbreviation ➜ 重箱

prefix noun:

• heavy
• serious; extreme

suffix / counter:

• -fold; -ply - counter for layers in the ichi-ni-san counting system ➜ 重【え】

noun:

• sense for (how to use) money; money sense - four character idiom

noun:

• silk pouch with drawstring for holding a tea caddy (tea ceremony)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to march in; to transfer; to send

expression:

• for the likes of me

noun:

• bowl used for serving rice

noun:

• marks to aid in reading Chinese classics

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to gain in skill; to improve; to get better

expression / ~の noun:

• you get what you pay for; cheap and nasty

noun:

• in-game item - IT term

noun:

• government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryo - archaism ➜ 令【りょう】・律令【りつりょう】

noun:

• brazier for warming one's cold fingers, esp. in spring

noun:

• paper screen door for admitting light

noun:

• partitions in a Japanese house (e.g. screens, sliding doors, etc.)

noun:

• fuel source for a (pocket) body warmer

noun:

• reek of liquor in one's breath

noun:

• combination of layered colours, esp. for kimono (usu. white and light indigo)

temporal noun:

• first thing in the morning - colloquialism

noun:

• container for growing seedlings; seedbed; sowing bed