noun:

• sencha tea ceremony; Way of Sencha Tea; Chinese-influenced Japanese tea ceremony using leaf tea rather than powdered tea, assoc. with the Ōbaku school of zen ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】・黄檗宗【おうばくしゅう】

noun:

• inscription on the bathtub of King Tang ("If you can renovate yourself one day, then you can do so every day, and keep doing so day after day.")

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• absorbed in; immersed in; crazy about; obsessed with; devoted to

noun / adjectival noun:

• forgetting oneself; daze; trance; ecstasy; delirium

noun:

• within a dream; while dreaming

noun:

• stamina; endurance; physical strength; resilience; resistance to disease
• strength of an organization (e.g. profitability, productivity, economic clout, stability, growth potential)

noun / ~する noun:

• electric short-circuit
• drawing a hasty inference between two events; jumping to a quick conclusion; dealing with matters quickly and carelessly

noun:

• appearance; look; countenance
• a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune ➜ 女難の相
• aspect - Linguistics term
• phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous) - Physics term

expression:

• it is wiser to make money steadily over time; light gains make heavy purse; better small takings than a large win [literal]

noun:

• waiting to see one's opponent's move before doing anything (e.g. as a disallowed act in rock, paper, scissors)

expression:

• we have piped unto you and ye have not danced; people ignoring one's invitation or effort to do something together - from Matthew 11:17 - idiom

noun:

• set of problems (e.g. in a textbook) in which previously learned skills are applied to real world situations; practical assessment

noun:

• game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs - archaism

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 迦具土神

noun:

• Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine ➜ 大国主命

noun:

• clothing to absorb dampness after bathing; yukata
• twice-boiled rice (for sick persons) - abbreviation ➜ 湯取り飯【ゆとりめし】
• scoop for removing bilge water; bailer - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• unwinding of funds transfer obligations; requesting a bank to return money that was transferred (e.g in error or in excess)

noun / ~の noun:

• ill will; spite; evil intention; malice
• bad meaning

noun:

• mala fides; bad faith; criminal intent to deceive - Law term ➜ 善意
• malice - Law term

noun:

• second in command
• fourth athlete to compete in a 5-on-5 team competition (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】

noun:

• before-sale service; advice to potential customer - From English "before service"

noun:

• scarcity of eligible women; difficulty for a man to find a woman; woman shortage ➜ 男旱【おとこひでり】

noun:

• ceremonial piles of sand (placed on both sides of an entrance to greet an important personage)

noun:

• foreign merchant; foreign businessman; foreign company; foreign firm
• out-of-store sales; calling on customers to take orders

noun:

• scarcity of eligible men; difficulty for a woman to find a man; man shortage ➜ 女ひでり【おんなひでり】

noun / ~する noun:

• community door-to-door campaign; search operation; cleaning campaign carried out thoroughly over an area

noun:

• adding something to or altering a finished work of art; something added or altered in this manner

~する noun:

• swat - to hit with a sharp slapping blow usually with an instrument (as a bat or flyswatter)