noun:

• an unsettled course of action; (orders or laws) being revised often with no guiding principles - four character idiom

noun:

• haikai; collective name for haiku, haibun, haiga, senryū, etc.
• humorous or vulgar renga poetry - abbreviation ➜ 俳諧の連歌

adverb / ~の noun:

• reasonably; fairly; all right; moderate - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• hurriedly; in a rush; having barely finished - in the form もそこそこに - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• approximately; about; or so

noun:

• former emperor (or his empress, imperial princesses, etc.) - honorific language
• posthumous Buddhist name containing the character "in" ➜ 院

noun / ~する noun:

• going about immersed or absorbed; pacing back and forth meditatively; being deep in thought

adverb:

• anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; be that as it may

noun:

• long thin strip of dried sea-ear or paper attached to a gift

noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

noun:

• all-or-nothing gambler; power hitter (baseball); slugger; one hit wonder (e.g. in music)

noun:

• captured piece that can be reused - Shōgi term
• person or object held in reserve; available means

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• order; ordering
• beginning; start
• foreword; preface; introduction ➜ 序詞
• opening of a song (in gagaku or noh) ➜ 序破急

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡

noun:

• public transmission rights (e.g. putting copyrightable material on the WWW or an FTP server)

noun:

• undulating melodic ornamentation or embellishment, esp. in folk and popular songs
• unit of timber measurement

noun:

• sommelier (sommeliere); waiter or waitress who manages and is an expert on wine - From French

noun:

• seasoning of grated daikon with soy and vinegar, usually for fish or vegetables - Food term

noun:

• address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; words
• ci (Chinese literary form)
• ancillary word ➜ 詞

expression:

• indication that a page or site may be linked without restriction - From English "link free"

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun / ~する noun:

• death due to shock (triggered by blood loss, heart failure or other causes)

noun:

• (railway, bus, highway) route designed or designated to meet a specific problem
• countermeasure program (policy)

noun:

• locomotor ataxia; difficulty walking or speaking (due to alcoholism, a stroke, etc.); someone with this problem - colloquialism - sensitive