noun:

• okonomiyaki; savoury pancake containing meat or seafood and vegetables

noun:

• hot-spring resort; spa town

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• overgrown; exuberant; lush - archaism

noun:

• Manchurian walnut (Juglans mandshurica)

expression:

• same group; same gang

noun:

• lying low; saying nothing and waiting for an opportunity

noun / ~する noun:

• change; metamorphosis; transformation

expression / noun:

• motion of a baby gently hitting his own face with both of his hands

noun / ~する noun:

• going public (with a matter); becoming public knowledge
• recourse to litigation; taking (a matter) to court

noun:

• soundtrack - IT term

expression / adverb:

• quietly; soundlessly

noun:

• woman who has produced only daughters

expression:

• astonishing; amazing; surprising; wonderful

noun:

• female weaver
• Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae ［しょくじょ］ - Astronomy term ➜ 織女星【しょくじょせい】

expression:

• parents overvaluing their own children but looking down on others' - proverb ➜ 親の欲目【おやのよくめ】

noun:

• tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year

noun:

• old term for rakugo

noun:

• paint chat; Internet chat room where users can draw pictures

noun:

• turned-down collar; lapel

noun:

• giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus)

noun:

• defeating a superior opponent

noun:

• tarantula (any spider of family Theraphosidae)

noun:

• earth taken from elsewhere and placed atop

noun:

• hard shell of a nut, etc.

noun:

• mother - honorific language