noun:

• dish of fish or meat flavoured with soy sauce, mirin, etc., coated with starch and then deep-fried - Food term

expression:

• we have piped unto you and ye have not danced; people ignoring one's invitation or effort to do something together - from Matthew 11:17 - idiom

noun:

• game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs - archaism

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 迦具土神

expression / adjective:

• adult-cute; grown-up but girlish; fashion style of adult women characterized by makeup and clothing that subtly emphasizes cuteness

noun:

• humorous mask of a homely woman's face (characterized by a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks)

adverb / ~たる adjective:

• firmly; absolutely; flatly; resolutely; decisively; definitely

adverb:

• by far; far and away; by a long shot; hands down

noun:

• sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama) - esp. 吉備団子
• millet dumplings - esp. 黍団子

noun:

• pledge; vow; promise
• (of a man and woman) having sexual relations; having sexual intercourse
• destiny; fate; karma

expression:

• almost never; few and far between; little or nothing; hardly any; hardly anything at all; very little

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• glasses and plates being scattered about after a party or banquet; articles lying about in a jumble - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden dolls - abbreviation ➜ 木目込人形
• type of theatrical makeup
• type of artwork using paper, cloth and paste

expression / adjectival noun:

• to be as busy as a bee; like Christmas and a birthday feast rolled into one - idiom

noun:

• Gulf surgeonfish (Acanthurus randalli, species of tang found in Florida and northeastern Gulf of Mexico)

noun:

• lacquering technique that uses a coloured-lacquer undercoating and a transparent-lacquer topcoat

expression / noun:

• point where two ocean currents meet (e.g. a warm current and a cold current) ➜ 潮目
• attractive glance - archaism

noun:

• crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal

noun:

• making from scratch (esp. in model-making and information systems); full scratch building - From English "full scratch"

noun / suffix noun:

• fish, meat, vegetables, etc. pickled in kōji and salt; food pickled in malted rice ➜ 麹【こうじ】

noun:

• secretly slitting one's belly (and only eventually revealing one's mortal wound) (in kabuki, bunraku, etc.)

noun:

• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - Buddhism term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break; to snap; to be cut; to split; to crack
• to be injured
• to wear out; to be worn out
• to break; to burst; to collapse
• to wear off; to stop working; to go dead
• to expire (time limit, etc.); to run out; to become due
• to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of
• to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship); to break up; to have severed ties; to be cut off; to be disconnected
• to cut well; to be sharp
• to be sharp-minded; to be keen; to be shrewd; to be quick-witted; to be able
• to be short of; to drop under (a certain figure); to beat (e.g. a record time)
• to dry off
• to curve; to veer
• to shuffle (cards)
• to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip - colloquialism ➜ キレる

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to be able to do completely - after the -masu stem of a verb - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• oils; oil colors; oil colours; oil paints (colors, colours); oil-based paints (for artwork)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to have a taste for; to be fond of; to have an interest in (e.g. a hobby)
• to be modest; to be prudent

noun:

• being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; throwing up (one's) hands [literal]