noun:

• butcher specializing in beef; dealer in beef
• beef-hotpot restaurant ➜ 牛鍋屋

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

noun:

• queue jumping; breaking into a line; muscling in on; wedging oneself in; interruption; sharing a theater box (theatre)
• interrupt - IT term

adverb:

• what street? (esp. in Kyoto and Sapporo)
• what article? (in a law)
• how can?; cannot possibly; there is no way - the 条 in 何条 is an ateji - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• writing with the brush in one's mouth

noun:

• foreword; preface
• affidavit; written confession (of a commoner in the Edo period)

noun:

• the principle of not resuming debate on an item in the same Diet session in which it has been voted down

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); Taoist immortal; supernatural being ➜ 仙人
• (in Japan) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C) ➜ 十二律・無射

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - From Chinese "mianma" ➜ 支那竹

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - sensitive ➜ 麺媽

noun:

• stance with legs in an L-shape, with one leg bent in front and other extended behind (martial arts, traditional theater)

noun:

• itai-itai disease; mass cadmium poisoning in Toyama Prefecture starting in the 1910's caused by industrial waste ➜ 痛い

noun:

• short flute piece (in kyogen; usu. a lively solo)
• flute and drum music played after each act but the last (in kabuki) - also written as 砂切

noun / prefix noun:

• having a fetish for ...; specializing in ...; majoring in ... - abbreviation - slang ➜ 専門

noun:

• first; foremost; number one priority - archaism
• doing as one pleases; acting selfishly - archaism
• fired brick - archaism

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり

noun:

• koto (13-stringed Japanese zither)
• stringed instrument ［こと］ - archaism
• zheng (Chinese zither); guzheng ［箏・筝］

noun:

• written language; literary language
• formal (or archaic) written style based on Heian-period Japanese

noun:

• nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta); Japanese pear; Asian pear; sand pear; apple pear

noun:

• Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)
• katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae); long-horned grasshopper
• cricket - archaism

noun:

• rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)

noun:

• Chinese parasol-tree (Firmiana simplex); Chinese-bottletree; Japanese varnishtree; phoenix-tree

noun:

• toad with wart-covered skin (esp. the Japanese toad or the wrinkled frog) - colloquialism

noun:

• the "wa" column of the Japanese syllabary table (wa, wi, we, wo)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to permit; to allow; to approve; to consent to
• to forgive; to pardon; to excuse; to tolerate
• to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to release; to let off
• to acknowledge; to admit ➜ 自他ともに許す
• to trust; to confide in; to let one's guard down ➜ 心を許す・気を許す
• to give up (points in a game, distance in a race, etc.); to yield

noun:

• hairstyle introduced in the Meiji era consisting in a bun or chignon tied at the back of the head