noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

noun:

• Commander-in-Chief; C-in-C

noun:

• sand, ash, etc., thrown in the eyes to blind someone; throwing something at someone's eyes to blind them
• poking someone's eyes during a fight to blind them

noun:

• beginning character or characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu (esp. used in competitive karuta) ➜ 百人一首【ひゃくにんいっしゅ】

noun:

• abandoning old people, usu. in the mountains

noun:

• autograph or note of authentication written on a box containing an art work

noun:

• kabuki in the style of Kyoto or Osaka ➜ 江戸狂言

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting for customers

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of verbs ending in "nu" (in written Japanese) - abbreviation ➜ ナ行変格活用

noun:

• body heat from several people in close quarters; stuffy air

noun:

• flipping a table over in anger; overturning a table in anger ➜ ちゃぶ台

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to fly in the air

adjective:

• lonesome for

noun:

• taking a relaxed holiday in a rural area - From English "green tourism"

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to return evil for good; to return a favour with spite (favor) - idiom

noun:

• small fish bone stuck in one's throat - archaism

noun:

• (lying on one's belly and) basking in the sun; sunbathing (e.g. on a beach)

noun:

• something wrapped in cloth

noun:

• rain that stops in the morning - obscure term

noun:

• forgetting one's serious objectives by becoming engrossed in trivial pursuits; being distracted by trivial objects and losing sight of one's original goal - four character idiom

noun:

• drawing every character in a similar way; same face syndrome - manga slang

noun:

• storage box; chest

noun:

• living in rented quarters

noun:

• sacred wooden pole used in traditional Koshogatsu ceremonies ➜ 小正月

expression:

• good match for an opponent; worthy (e.g. rival)