noun / ~する noun:

• standing together in a disorderly fashion; standing close around; crowding together
• flooding in (applicants, election candidates, etc.)

expression:

• many irons in the fire; engaged in two trades at the same time; wearing two hats - idiom

noun:

• having free time to spare in the midst of busyness; leisure in the intervals of one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing ➜ 書き損じ
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard) ➜ 書き損じ

noun:

• Jizo Festival (child-focused religious festival, in which Jizo statues are decorated, esp. in Kyoto; 23-24 August)

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard)

noun:

• ripple; ring on the water
• repercussions
• Japanese slit drum; instrument made of iron with slits on top; makes a rippling sound - Music term

noun:

• Japanese hackberry (Celtis sinensis var. japonica); Chinese nettle tree
• enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes); winter mushroom; velvet shank; enokitake; enokidake ［えのき・榎］ - abbreviation

noun:

• slotted dome cast iron grill for preparing the Genghis Khan dish
• Japanese mutton and vegetable dish ➜ ジンギス汗料理

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to disappear into; to be lost in; to slip into; to get mixed in among
• to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.)
• to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar
• to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.); to forget about
• to be distracted by; to be too absorbed in

noun:

• Japanese-Chinese cuisine, served family-style (large dishes, diners help themselves), specialty of Nagasaki; Chinese table cuisine

noun:

• immersion; dipping; in microscopy, immersing both the objective lens and the specimen in a liquid to increase the numerical aperture; in photolithography, filling the air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid to increase the resolution

noun:

• rice cracker; Japanese cracker; rice cookie; wafer

noun:

• Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula); Japanese bullfinch

noun:

• thin paper (esp. thin Japanese vellum paper) ➜ 薄様【うすよう】

noun:

• jabara (Citrus jabara); type of Japanese citrus

noun / ~する noun:

• growing en masse in a location (plants) ［ぐんせい］
• living gregariously (animals, people); living in a community ［ぐんせい］

noun:

• all animate creation - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• veteran; (someone) schooled by adversity in many battles; (someone) rich in life's experience gained through much adversity - four character idiom

noun:

• family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be lost in lust for riches; to throw all caution and conscience away in pursuit of riches ➜ 目が眩む

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物に福がある【のこりものにふくがある】

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb

expression / adverb:

• in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物には福がある【のこりものにはふくがある】

adjectival noun / noun:

• dry (esp. as in not wet or as in dry humour)