noun:

• front company set up to hide someone's true profession by pretending to employ them (often used by call girls) ➜ ダミー会社

noun:

• the seven treasures and many other precious things; all the treasures in the world - four character idiom

noun:

• all of one's relatives by blood and by marriage; one's kith and kin - four character idiom

noun:

• a member of one's "in group" (e.g. one's family, employees, etc.)

noun:

• wooden ladle or rod used to stir the rice porridge used in a kayaura divination ➜ 粥占

noun:

• dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi ➜ 蜜柑

noun:

• Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)

noun:

• children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards ➜ 押しくらまんじゅう

noun:

• children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards - abbreviation ➜ 押し競べ

noun:

• shop in shop; shop-in-shop; in-store shop

noun:

• mythical shark-like demon sea monster with barbed tail fin, said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan; Beach Stroker

noun:

• small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below) ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used to cover oneself in hot weather - From English "towel blanket"

noun:

• narrow, long, and thin pieces of wood strung together that were used to write on in ancient times ➜ 竹簡

noun:

• Chinese bronze inscriptions; type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties

noun:

• type of lettering consisting of thick vertical and horizontal lines which is often used in seals

noun:

• horse oil; extract of horse subcutaneous fat, used in cosmetics and traditional medicine

noun:

• monkey booze; sake-like liquid produced by the fermentation of fruits left by monkeys in tree caches or hollows in rocks

noun / ~する noun:

• perusing as a side business; doing in addition to one's main work; running (businesses) simultaneously

noun:

• side business; job on the side

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh one thing against the other; to act in consideration of; to compare and take into consideration

noun:

• carbonated alcohols; category of alcoholic beverages in liquor tax law which includes beer, happoshu and other drinks with an alcohol percentage of 10 or less ➜ 発泡酒

noun:

• drawing hot water; person who draws hot water
• employee who pours clean hot water used for rinsing in a bathhouse
• ladle (esp. used in bath houses)

noun:

• tax-free small-sum savings system (often used by the elderly and the disabled); non-tax plan for small savings

noun:

• Siebold's wild ginger (esp. its dried root or rhizome, used as an antitussive and analgesic in traditional Chinese medicine) ➜ 薄葉細辛

noun:

• ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind