noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction

noun:

• a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame) - four character idiom

noun:

• top crease of a sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)
• sleeve cap (of Western clothing)

noun:

• a great authority - abbreviation ➜ 泰山北斗

noun:

• (adopting) a popular line; (taking) a populist line - four character idiom

noun:

• traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period Antonym: 紐鏡

noun:

• a certain somebody; you-know-who - humorous term ➜ 誰か

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to submit (a plan) to a committee for deliberation

noun:

• log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole

noun:

• beginning of a dispute

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of a gate
• (Edo-period) house confinement

noun:

• guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period) ➜ 武家造

noun:

• ceremony for moving a deity to a new site - Shintō term ➜ 遷座【せんざ】・遷宮祭【せんぐうさい】

noun:

• a water level

noun:

• someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer - IT term

expression:

• when kids get in a fight, their parents come to their aid; yelping curs will raise mastiffs - proverb

noun:

• a blank mind

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to butt into a conversation (from someone uninvolved)

noun:

• half a year

expression:

• children are a bond between husband and wife; children hold marriages together - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a seat; to sit
• to occupy a position (e.g. committee president)

noun:

• fever following a chill

noun:

• buying a replacement; replacing by buying something new

noun:

• simulation of a person

noun:

• (one of) a comic duo