noun:

• puff piece (in a newspaper, etc.); flatteringly exaggerated article; sycophantic article ➜ 提灯持ち

noun:

• white cloth
• empty land; empty lot
• amateur (of a prostitute, etc)

noun:

• city god; guardian deity of a city and esp. its marketplace

noun:

• cabinet announcement; cabinet notification; official government promulgation of a decision, etc.

noun:

• final hand of a game (i.e. south round, fourth hand) - Mahjong term - From English "all last"

noun:

• twittering of a bush warbler (esp. during winter); tiny twittering

noun:

• (Chinese) jump rope; jumping over a fixed elastic rope ➜ ゴム跳び・ゴム紐【ゴムひも】

noun:

• sawing
• death by sawing (i.e. as a capital punishment)

noun:

• bowed tendon; type of tendon injury in a horse's leg

noun:

• quantity (per carton, etc.); number contained (in a packet, etc.)

noun:

• whole temple complex; all the temples on a mountain
• one mountain - orig. meaning ➜ 一山【ひとやま】

expression:

• on the least pretext; at the drop of a hat ➜ 何かと言うと

noun:

• repairing pottery with a lacquer mixed with gold, silver, etc.

noun:

• one floor (of a building); single floor

noun:

• sandwich filled with a fried cake of layered slices of ham - Food term ➜ ハムカツ

noun:

• Smilax biflora var. trinervula (variety of a species of greenbrier)

noun:

• rosette; ceiling rose; circular electrical cord mounting, usu. on a ceiling

noun:

• local card game (usu. a local version of hanafuda or kabufuda) ➜ 花札【はなふだ】・株札【かぶふだ】

noun:

• disaster certificate; document certifying that one is a disaster victim

noun:

• beauty of form or proportion (in a created object); solid beauty

noun:

• cover story (in a magazine); cover article

noun:

• putamen (part of brain) - Anatomy term
• frustule; silicified cell wall of a diatom - Biology term

expression:

• good fences make good neighbors; a hedge between keeps friendship green - proverb

expression:

• even Homer nods; even a polished mirror conceals its reverse side [literal] - proverb

noun:

• atomic bomb; A-bomb - abbreviation ➜ 原子爆弾