noun:

• event where schoolchildren wash their inkstones, brushes and desks the night before Tanabata to pray for success in their studies - obscure term ➜ 七夕

noun:

• win by discarding nothing but terminal and honor tiles in an otherwise drawn round - Mahjong term

noun or verb acting prenominally / ~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• semi-hard (bag, cheese, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• song and dance performed as an offering to the gods ➜ 神楽

noun:

• pastry made of dough pulled into various shapes and fried - Food term

noun:

• method of Buddhist study and practice that is based in meditative concentration; meditative methods used in Zen Buddhism - Buddhism term

adjectival noun / noun:

• round and cute (esp. eyes); rotund

noun:

• Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (in Chinese history)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• vast and blue (e.g. ocean)
• dusky; shadowy

expression:

• here and there; everywhere

noun:

• Minister of Health and Welfare

noun:

• beautiful and quiet scene

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick into and move around; to dig around in; to pick (i.e. one's teeth)

noun:

• sick and wounded soldiers

expression / adjective:

• fast; brisk
• careless; thoughtless; impudent; rash
• (of a woman) wanton; promiscuous

conjunction:

• and; thereupon; because of that - colloquialism ➜ 其れで

noun:

• bringing out the pillows and futon (in Zen Buddhism); sleeping - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• parent and daughter ➜ 親子

expression:

• in one ear and out the other

adverb:

• this and that; one thing or another ➜ どうのこうの

noun:

• tea ceremony performed with tables and chairs (instead of sitting on tatami)

noun:

• securing rights and profits

noun / ~する noun:

• comparison and choosing the good; consultation; referring to

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term