noun:

• tiqin (2 or 4-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
• violin ➜ バイオリン

noun:

• medley (of food, songs, etc.)
• (snow or sand) drift

noun:

• educational policies or administration
• Bunsei era (1818.4.22-1830.12.10)

noun:

• fish or shrimp, etc. grilled so that it retains its original form

adjectival noun / noun:

• becoming an adult or full-fledged member of (a) society ➜ 一人前

noun / ~する noun:

• adaptation (e.g. of a poem or novel); rewriting; recasting; modification; rehashing - four character idiom

noun:

• first meal (including meat or fish) taken after a period of abstinence

noun:

• festive poem or song
• congratulatory form (of waka) ➜ 六義

noun:

• vinegar, soy sauce and mirin (or sugar) mixed in roughly equal proportions ➜ 合わせ酢

noun:

• older brother - honorific language

pronoun:

• you (in ref. to male of greater age or status) - epistolary style - honorific language ➜ 小弟

expression / adjective:

• not at all inferior to; rival or surpass; compare favorably (with)

noun:

• game or series of games between the first and second place teams - Sports term

noun:

• administrative reform proposal, involving integration of prefectures into 7 or 9 states

noun:

• man who marries a wealthy or upwardly-mobile woman; (male) gold digger

noun:

• flowers or flower arrangements for a butsudan (household Buddhist altar)

noun:

• practice of eating sushi or sashimi off an unclad woman's body

expression:

• cool! (only when said or written in a questioning tone); incredible; unbelievable

noun:

• feeling of food or drink going down one's throat - often of beer

noun:

• rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce ➜ 雑炊

noun / ~する noun:

• extortion of money or goods (e.g. from lower year students); shakedown - slang

expression / adjectival noun:

• unnatural; out of place; forced or faked (e.g. expression)

noun:

• polymastia (having more than one pair of mammae or breasts); pleomastia; hypermastia

noun:

• rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame

noun:

• hungry spirit (lacking in people not having drive or ambition)

noun:

• local site; location for making or filming a movie