noun:

• style of penmanship

noun:

• toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox

noun:

• layers of history

noun:

• act of treachery; breach of faith; stab in the back; double-cross

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to cry tears of joy; to weep for joy

suffix noun:

• day of month

counter:

• counter for days

noun:

• twenty-ninth day of the month
• twenty-nine days

noun:

• succession of defeats - four character idiom

noun:

• way of asking; way of listening
• listener

noun:

• region of interest - IT term

expression:

• worthy of; worth doing; worth having - contraction of ...をする甲斐がある - colloquialism ➜ やり甲斐【やりがい】

noun:

• certificate of theft (for insurance purposes, etc.)

noun:

• place where one can view a vast number of cherry blossom trees at a glance - esp. 吉野山 in Nara

noun:

• wind coming from the top of a mountain ➜ 山颪【やまおろし】

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term ➜ 貴輪時代

expression:

• rejecting the advances of women is a man's shame; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame [literal] - proverb ➜ 据え膳【すえぜん】

noun:

• results of an investigation - IT term

noun:

• maker of Buddhist images and altar fittings

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to act as an intermediary

noun:

• resting one's chopsticks across the top of one's bowl (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• sound of wind
• beautiful poetry

noun:

• abstract side of things (such as personnel, skill, information; as opposed to physical things) ➜ ハード面

noun / ~する noun:

• helping a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

noun / ~する noun:

• fulfilment of a vow; one's earnest prayer being answered - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• root of a tooth; fang