noun:

• Bon festival; Feast of Lanterns; Buddhist ceremony held on July 15; ullambana - four character idiom ➜ うらぼん・お盆

noun:

• not having met or contacted someone for a long time; neglect of friends

noun:

• brief remark; few words
• one side (e.g. of an argument); ex-parte statement

noun:

• identity fraud; forgery (e.g. of email); spoofing - IT term
• masquerade (esp. for evil purposes)

noun:

• key (to understanding); point (e.g. of an argument) ➜ 捉えどころのない

noun / ~する noun:

• paying to get someone (esp. a geisha, prostitute, etc.) out of bondage

noun / ~する noun:

• persuading by heavy-handed methods
• (in aesthetics) refinement; purification; elimination of non-essential elements

noun:

• capital letter
• first character of a dictionary entry
• matrix (printing)
• kanji corresponding to furigana

noun:

• liquid; beverage; drink
• food with high water content
• gamble; uncertain affair; matter of chance

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

noun:

• sirenian (any aquatic mammal of order Sirenia, incl. manatees, and dugongs); sea cow

noun / ~の noun:

• atavism; throwback; reappearance of an earlier characteristic; skipping a generation; reversion to ancestral type

noun / ~する noun:

• change of colour; changing colours; discoloration

~の noun / noun:

• differently coloured (but otherwise similar)
• different; unusual

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to improve one's skill (esp. at calligraphy or drinking larger amounts of alcohol) - idiom

noun:

• Mt. Koya missionary (usu. low-ranking monks)
• Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 田鼈

noun:

• thin strip of wood smeared with sulfur, used to light a fire

noun:

• storyboard (film, television); design for a series of movie scenes - abbreviation ➜ コンティニュイティ

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese)

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean) - derogatory term

noun:

• source of funds; gold mine; patron; milch cow
• cash box; safe

noun:

• penis-shaped device, traditionally made of horn, shell or papier mache; dildo

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have training bouts with one's junior during practice (of a senior wrestler) - Sumo term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• dripping ink marks; a work of calligraphy being written in bold and vivid strokes - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment

noun / ~する noun:

• change in mentality; changing one's way of thinking; adjusting psychologically to shifting circumstances - four character idiom