noun:

• roadside shelter from falling rocks - From English "rock shed"

noun:

• branch of ancient Japanese magic tricks inherited mainly from oral tradition

noun:

• celebrating recovery from illness

noun:

• juice pressed from a bitter orange ➜ ポンス
• ponzu (Japanese sauce made primarily of soy sauce and citrus juice) - abbreviation ➜ ポン酢醤油

noun:

• starting the new school year from autumn (instead of spring); autumnal admission; fall matriculation

noun:

• organ transplant from a brain-dead donor

noun:

• running away from a debt

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• rocking from side to side (of a boat)

noun:

• lacquer made from the sap of Acanthopanax sciadophylloides ➜ 漉油

noun:

• geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) - colloquialism ➜ 辰巳芸者

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮

noun:

• employee posted away from their family

noun:

• straying from love; falling out of love; lost love

noun:

• cloth woven from twisted silk yarn ➜ より糸【よりいと】

noun / ~する noun:

• shift away from manufacturing to an information and service-based economy - Economics term
• softening
• release (e.g. of a movie) on home video (e.g. DVD, BD, VHS)

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting across from each other and drinking together

godan ~る verb:

• to draw a tile from the wall - Mahjong term ➜ 自摸
• to win on a self-drawn tile - Mahjong term ➜ 自摸

noun:

• writing from top to bottom
• writing without a pause
• translation of classical Chinese into Japanese - abbreviation ➜ 書き下し文

noun:

• being unable to discern good food from bad; poor person's taste (in food); unsophisticated palate - colloquialism

noun:

• arare biscuit made from soybeans ➜ 霰【あられ】

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to extend from one year to the next; to go to the next year

noun:

• sitting across from each other and drinking together ➜ 対酌

godan ~く verb:

• to be underwater from the neck down; to collect shells, seaweed, etc. by diving under the water - archaism
• to force something under the surface of the water

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007