noun:

• spot removal, esp. from the skin - usu. シミ取り ➜ 染み【しみ】
• spot remover (carpets, etc.) - usu. 染み取り ➜ 染み【しみ】

noun:

• Amitabha triad; image of Amitabha Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta - Buddhism term

noun:

• Bhaishajyaguru triad; image of Bhaishajyaguru Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Suryaprabha and Candraprabha - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• person who steals money from the workplace; embezzler; untrustworthy person

expression / noun:

• unvoiced opinion; (opinion of the) silent majority; views which are not expressed - idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• drumming (noise); beating; pounding; banging; booming; stamping - onomatopoeia
• rapidly; quickly; steadily - onomatopoeia
• continuously; one after the other; in succession - onomatopoeia

noun:

• advance guard; vanguard
• athlete who competes in the first match of a team competition (kendo, judo, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• inner part of a house (near the kitchen, living room, etc.)
• family matters; household affairs; personal business

expression:

• one's father is more horrifying than any natural disaster; earthquakes, thunder, fires, the old man [literal] - proverb

expression / noun:

• (principle of) letting sleeping dogs lie; peace-at-any-price; don't rock the boat

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

adverb:

• after all; in the end; finally

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• excellent; superb; handy; appropriate; ideal
• robust; brawny; muscular; strong; sturdy ［くっきょう］ ➜ 屈強

noun:

• whitewashing; glossing over; lip service
• deftly finishing up; putting on the final touches - original meaning

expression / adverb:

• after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably

noun:

• hut; shanty; hovel; shack ➜ 小屋
• house built directly into the ground with no supporting stones

noun / ~する noun:

• buying more than one of the same item in different colors (colours) - slang ➜ イロチ

expression / adjective:

• inseparable (esp. bond, relationship); inextricable; joined at the hip; integral; essential; cannot be broken (cut, separated); indissoluble

noun:

• diseases specified by the Japanese government as being worrisome, having no known treatment and of unknown causes

noun:

• contradictio in adjecto; contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies (wooden iron, hot ice, etc.)

noun:

• going along with a joke, etc. at the beginning then pointing out its ridiculousness ➜ 突っ込み

noun:

• couvade (custom in which a male acts out the physical process of his own child being born) - obscure term

noun:

• couvade (custom in which a male acts out the physical process of his own child being born) - obscure term - From French ➜ 擬娩

noun:

• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) (esp. one living in the mountains) ［山杜鵑］ ➜ 時鳥
• Tricyrtis macropoda (species of toad lily)

noun:

• Great Interregnum (gap between Hohenstaufen and Habsburg rule of the Holy Roman Empire, approx. 1254-1273 CE)

noun:

• sautoir; long necklace (longer than opera-length), often with an ornament (tassel or pendant) at the end