noun:

• shower effect (theory that placing high-selling items on the upper floors of a department store will lead to increased sales in the lower floors) ➜ 噴水効果

adverb:

• sound of something small rolling once (often into a hole) - onomatopoeia
• easily
• suddenly
• completely (e.g. forgetting); utterly
• disappointing
• curling up into the fetal position; going to sleep suddenly

noun:

• device with axle used to change the backdrop of a (kabuki) play - archaism ➜ 田楽豆腐
• turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides

noun:

• promotional model (at a trade show, etc.); female guide (at a convention); booth babe
• hostess (of a party, banquet, etc.)
• companion - orig. meaning

noun:

• bad example from which one can learn; good example of what not to do (esp. how not to behave); negative example - four character idiom

noun:

• competent in all fields; jack of all trades; very active in many fields; versatile; all-round; 8 faces and 6 arms [literal] - four character idiom

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to write incorrectly; to miswrite
• to spoil (e.g. a letter) due to writing mistakes; to ruin; to make a mess of

noun:

• soup served at the end of a traditional Japanese dinner; last soup served in a Kaiseki course (often miso soup) ➜ 会席料理

noun:

• Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica); Japanese ivory shell
• spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell) - abbreviation ➜ 貝独楽

noun:

• gold wheel (highest of the three layered wheels that support the earth above the primordial void) - Buddhism term
• gold wheel-turning sage king - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 金輪王

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.); to feel pressure; to feel pain ➜ 閊える

noun:

• tamponade; blockage or closure of a wound or body cavity by (or as if by) a tampon (esp. to stop bleeding) - Medicine term ➜ 心タンポナーデ【しんタンポナーデ】

noun:

• station melody; departure melody; melody sounded on a station platform just before the doors of a train are closed

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to write incorrectly; to miswrite
• to spoil (e.g. a letter) due to writing mistakes; to ruin; to make a mess of

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be moved back (e.g. date, rank, order); to be postponed Antonym: 繰り上がる【くりあがる】
• to be borrowed (of a number in subtraction) - Mathematics term ➜ 繰り上がる【くりあがる】

noun:

• ornamental garden stone (seemingly placed randomly to give the garden a more natural appearance)
• sacrificed stone (in the game of go) ➜ 捨て駒

noun:

• traditional short winter coat resembling a haori without gussets ➜ 羽織
• livery coat ➜ 印半纏
• half the sky ［半天］
• mid-air; middle of the sky ［半天］

noun:

• paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony)
• paper used for writing tanka

noun:

• physical labor; physical labour; manual work; heavy work ［荒業］
• drastic move (e.g. hold or strike in martial arts); power technique; display of power

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

noun:

• form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)

noun:

• photomontage; manipulated photo; photoshopped picture - slang - abbreviation ➜ コラージュ
• kora (West-African instrument)
• kora layer; layer formed from volcanic ash on the southern part of the Satsuma Peninsula - Geology term

noun:

• three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration

expression / noun:

• doing or receiving something good by accident or through the invitation of somebody else; being pulled to the Zenkoji temple by a cow [literal] - idiom