noun:

• style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof

expression:

• easy; simple; even if you're an idiot or a simpleton [literal] - チョン is often a racist term for Koreans - sensitive ➜ チョン

noun:

• fukubachi; inverted bowl that sits above the base of a pagoda finial

noun:

• ryūsha; spherical part of a pagoda finial between the hōju and suien

noun:

• short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store

noun:

• hinomaru bento (contains plain white rice with a single red umeboshi on top)

~と adverb:

• with a crunching or grinding sound - onomatopoeia
• quickly; promptly; abruptly; simply; efficiently
• crispily; crunchily ➜ さくさく

noun:

• primary nursing care requirement authorization (a 5-level graded system under health insurance) ➜ 介護保険制度

expression:

• being excessively cautious; knocking on a strong stone bridge before crossing it [literal] - idiom

noun:

• drink; drinking - abbreviation
• spigot; tap (in a cask, etc.)
• stock market bucketing
• bookmaking

noun:

• Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni) - obscure term - From Latin "Eoanthropus" ➜ ピルトダウン人

noun:

• outline of a solitary fish (as seen through the water when fishing, etc.)

noun:

• (printed) itinerary
• road map; program (for the solution of a political problem, etc.) ➜ ロードマップ

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun / ~する noun:

• ding-dong dash (ringing a doorbell and running away)

noun:

• literary form imparting a formal written nuance (with sentences ending in "de aru") ➜ だ体

noun:

• hog (esp. a wild boar, but also including the domesticated pig) - archaism

noun:

• Test of English as a Foreign Language; TOEFL

noun / ~する noun:

• placing in a list (top ten, popularity, sales, etc.) - From English "rank in"

noun:

• yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram) ➜ 卦

noun:

• forming by hand (instead of using a potter's wheel, etc.); handwork

noun:

• pre-harvest estimate of a rice field's yield and selling price

noun:

• inverted copper or iron bell shaped like a bowl (sounded when reciting sutras)

noun:

• kuruma prawn (esp. a small one, i.e. less than 10 cm in length) ➜ 車海老

noun:

• couchette; non-private sleeper car or berth on a European train - From French