noun:

• someone haughty and boastful at home but meek and reserved outside; being a lion at home and a mouse abroad

noun:

• Japanese food; Japanese-style meal; Japanese cuisine ➜ 洋食

noun / ~の noun:

• Japanese representative; Japanese delegate; Japanese delegation

noun:

• a snipe and a clam; a snipe and a mussel ➜ 鷸蚌の争い

noun:

• worship or admiration of Western cultures

noun:

• Tsugaru (Western region of Aomori Prefecture)

noun:

• koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres
• measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)

noun:

• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

noun / ~する noun:

• change again and again; seesaw back and forth; being in a state of flux; backtracking repeatedly - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• big; large; drastic; substantial Antonym: 小幅

noun:

• full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing) ➜ 小幅・中幅

noun:

• native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音【おん】

noun / suffix:

• precept; lesson; one's teachings ➜ 処世訓【しょせいくん】

noun:

• proprietress (of a traditional Japanese inn or restaurant); landlady; hostess; mistress

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• hairstyle of Meiji and Taisho era, featuring a bun resembling a halved peach

noun:

• room; chamber
• monk in charge of business in the monks' quarters
• bedroom (of a married couple)
• locule (in a plant ovary)
• atria and ventricles

noun:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs)

expression:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs) ➜ 犬猿

noun:

• Japanese pepper (species of Sichuan pepper, Zanthoxylum piperitum); Japanese prickly ash

prefix noun / ~の noun:

• Japanese style; Japanese model; Japanese way

noun:

• national language
• Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan) ➜ 国語科
• native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

expression:

• trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; The cure is worse than the disease - four character idiom

noun:

• firm-sided backpack made of leather, etc. (used by Japanese elementary schoolchildren, often red for girls and black for boys) - From Dutch "ransel"

noun / ~する noun:

• setting oneself free from the life of a white-collar worker; quitting a job as a salaryman and launching an independent business ➜ サラ

noun / ~する noun:

• order (esp. to a number of people); command
• ritual of bowing at start and end of school class

noun:

• prisoner; captive; prisoner of war
• Emishi allied with the Japanese during the Nara and Heian periods ➜ えみし