noun:

• the "ya" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ya, yu, yo)

noun:

• dental calculus (calcified deposits that accumulate on the teeth); tartar (of the teeth)

noun:

• forgetting the hardships of the old year
• forgetting one another's age difference

noun:

• law; rule; commandment
• the Torah (the law of God as revealed to Moses) ➜ モーセ五書

noun / ~する noun:

• evacuating to the homes of one's relatives in the countryside in wartime

expression:

• what I want to say is ...; the fact of the matter is ...

noun:

• tarsus (group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

noun:

• assembly at the end of the day (at a company or school, etc.) ➜ 朝礼【ちょうれい】

adjective:

• having the smell of having been dried in the sun
• provincial; rural; unrefined

noun:

• Mariana Trench (deepest part of the ocean, near the Mariana Islands)

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

adverb:

• for the present; for the time being; at present; in the meantime ➜ 差し当たり

noun:

• large cut (e.g. of meat) ［大切り・大切］
• last piece of the day's programme; last act of a play; comic dialogue as the last item in vaudeville, music hall, etc.

noun:

• deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed - four character idiom

noun:

• divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband) - colloquialism

expression:

• until something reaches the very limit; until the very last minute; up to the breaking point

noun:

• folk song from the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture (used as a Bon Festival dance song)

noun:

• placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow; ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow ➜ 雪折れ

noun:

• speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date

noun:

• well curb consisting of wooden beams crossed at the ends
• pattern resembling the symbol #; parallel crosses
• number sign; hash ➜ 番号記号

noun:

• riverbed ［かしょう・かわどこ］
• raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer ［かわどこ・かわゆか・ゆか］

noun:

• the five virtues
• tripod; three or four-legged kettle stand
• family crest in the shape of such an object

noun:

• pornographic pose (spreading one's legs open wide with knees bent, creating the shape of the letter 'M')

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi - obscure term ➜ 忘れ緒

expression:

• the last drop makes the cup run over; too much of a good thing; less is more - proverb