noun:

• box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables)

noun:

• stylishness (esp. of a woman working at a nightclub, etc.); sophistication; refinement; class; style

noun:

• washing of bones before placing them in a bone storage urn (esp. in Okinawa) ➜ 厨子

noun / ~する noun:

• stripping a samurai of clothes and swords and exiling him naked (Edo period punishment)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be able to hold one's head up (of a baby)

expression / noun:

• in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw ➜ 目と鼻の先【めとはなのさき】

noun:

• having only tiles of one suit and no honor tiles (yaku) - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 清一色

expression:

• nothing to be afraid of; trivial; not amounting to much; can't do anything

expression:

• Dislike China, Hate Korea; publishing genre of anti-Chinese and Korean books and magazines

noun:

• fact; (a) truth
• realistic portrayal of an ordinary event (by a wise man) ［じつごと］ - in kabuki

noun:

• food mall; restaurant area (of a department store, airport, etc.); restaurant floor

noun:

• pseudo-foreign company; company based abroad but whose main country of business is Japan - Law term ➜ 外国会社

noun:

• checking of a text (usu. translation) by a native speaker - From English "native check"

noun:

• small amount of money (to buy sandals or cover travel expenses); small farewell gift

noun:

• custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

noun:

• hanakkori (Brassica napus cv. Hanakkori); hybrid of choy sum and broccoli invented in Yamaguchi prefecture

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• fitness training; development of physical strength; building stamina; keeping up one's fitness

noun:

• route for a date; course of activities for dating couples - From English "date course"

expression:

• birds of a feather flock together; don't mix your horses with your cows - proverb

noun:

• challenging members of a dojo to a fight and demanding money upon winning

expression / noun:

• empty eyes; thousand-yard stare; blank glaze; expressionless look; eyes of a dead fish [literal] - idiom

noun:

• lump; mass; bundle; clump; clod; cluster
• group; crowd
• embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification

noun / ~する noun:

• advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; briefing session
• overlap (of a coat, etc.)
• making something match exactly - archaism

noun:

• scale (of fish, snake, etc.)
• serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))