noun:

• glossy silk thread (made from raw silk treated in a solution to dissolve the sericin)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior) - idiom

expression:

• even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter - proverb

expression:

• even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter - proverb

noun:

• dripping liquid (soup, sauce, etc.) from the tips of one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma, species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark from the Western Pacific)

noun:

• haggis (traditional Scottish dish made from a sheep's offal cooked in the animal's stomach)

noun:

• "090" financing; loan sharks operating from a cellphone (i.e. without a fixed phone number)

noun:

• threeblotched rabbitfish (Siganus trispilos, species of rabbitfish from the eastern Indian Ocean)

noun:

• ground stone tool from the late Jomon period (named after its similarity to the Buddhist tokko) ➜ 独鈷

noun / prefix noun:

• Jakarta; Java - applied to Javan items imported by Dutch traders during the Edo period - From Dutch "Jacatra"

noun:

• potato (Solanum tuberosum) - abbreviation ➜ ジャガタラ芋
• striped fabric imported from Java (often cotton, sometimes mixed with silk) - abbreviation

noun:

• taking food directly from a communal dish with one's own chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 取り箸

noun:

• exemption (from a regulation, etc. usu. because of small scale)
• cut-off cuffs (trousers, etc.)

noun:

• dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms ➜ 玉繭

noun:

• tonkatsu sauce; sauce made from ketchup, Worcester, soy, mirin, mustard, etc. ➜ 豚カツ

noun:

• warbler flying from a valley to a tree - orig. meaning ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• finding success in life ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• passing the palace examination ➜ 進士【しんし】

noun:

• writing from top to bottom
• writing without a pause
• translation of classical Chinese into Japanese - abbreviation ➜ 書き下し文

noun:

• ginjō sake; high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60% - abbreviation ➜ 吟醸酒

noun:

• free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

noun:

• restoring the declining fortunes; recovering from the discouraging situation; reversing the downward trend - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to relax; to release tension from one's muscles; to let go limp

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to hang from; to dangle; to swing

noun:

• mail from abroad; foreign mail; overseas mail

noun:

• cruel wife; termagant wife; wife from hell - colloquialism - derogatory term