noun:

• votive objects for a home shrine; ritual article - Shintō term

noun:

• senior proprietress (hostess) of a Japanese inn or restaurant

noun:

• licking one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sudden and unexpected (as in a person's death)

noun:

• small strap tied at the waist of a hanpi ➜ 半臂

noun:

• Herrenmoral (master morality, as a philosophical concept of Nietzsche) ➜ 奴隷道徳

noun:

• Sklavenmoral (slave morality, as a philosophical concept of Nietzsche) ➜ 君主道徳

expression:

• intense antipathy (like a blazing fire); flames of rage

noun:

• squeezed juice (e.g. of a lemon)

noun:

• leaning out of a car or train window

noun:

• star (white patch on the forehead of a horse) - obscure term ➜ 星月

noun:

• star (white patch on the forehead of a horse)

~と adverb:

• sound of a button or switch being pressed - onomatopoeia

noun:

• swallowtail butterfly larva (a pest of citrus plants)

expression:

• there are no cowardly soldiers under a superior general - four character idiom

noun:

• diatessaron (the four Gospels woven into a single narrative) - obscure term

noun:

• gap (in a mountain ridge)

noun:

• removing a partition (wall)

adverb:

• straight through without interruption - colloquialism

noun:

• jinghu (2-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)

noun:

• yehu (bowed Chinese instrument with a coconut-shell body)

noun:

• yunluo (10 small gongs mounted in a wooden frame)

noun:

• electoral quota (e.g. in a proportional representation system)

noun:

• type A (blood, influenza, hepatitis, etc.)

noun:

• skimming (illegally copying credit cards with a swipe device)

~する noun:

• getting stuck in a rut; becoming stereotyped ➜ マンネリ