noun:

• responsibility for one's words

noun:

• meaningless words added a song for rhythmical effect; words or utterances added to modulate the cadence of a song

noun:

• arguments for the existence of God

expression / noun:

• Party for Japanese Kokoro (Japanese political party founded by Shintarō Ishihara)

expression / noun:

• zest for living; energy to live

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to gasp for air; to pant; to be out of breath ➜ 息急き切る【いきせききる】

noun:

• Application Specific Integrated Circuit - IT term

noun:

• bucket for carrying night soil ➜ 肥たご【こえたご】

noun:

• rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil - Shintō term

noun:

• medicine for external use; external medicine

noun:

• transitional measures

noun:

• ash for spreading (tea ceremony)

noun:

• fee for day-care

noun:

• three special awards for wrestlers at the end of a tournament - Sumo term ➜ 殊勲賞・敢闘賞・技能賞

noun:

• gift certificate for books; book token

noun:

• comfortable low-heel shoes, suitable for nurses - From English "nurse shoes"

noun:

• grandmotherly solicitude for another's welfare; excessive solicitude - four character idiom

noun:

• ideal weather for a walk - four character idiom

noun:

• medical insurance for the elderly

noun:

• love or affection for one's parents

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have an ear for music

noun:

• sign staked to a building's ridgepole at construction time stating the building's donor, builder, date, reason for construction, etc.

expression:

• for a certain reason; owing to unavoidable circumstances

noun:

• Buddhist center for study and meditation; monastery; temple - abbreviation of 栴檀林 - Buddhism term ➜ 栴檀
• Danrin style of haikai poetry (playful and oriented to the common person); Danrin school (of haikai poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 俳諧・談林風・談林派

noun:

• infection control measures