noun:

• nakiri bocho, var. of Japanese knife used for cutting vegetables

noun:

• style of tie-dyeing used during the Nara era

noun:

• malaria therapy (formerly used to treat syphilis, etc.)

noun:

• roasted millet or rice cake used to make okoshi ➜ 興し【おこし】

expression:

• unused things (esp. clothing); objects bought but never used

noun:

• synthetic fiber thread (usually nylon) typically used for stringing beads ➜ 天蚕糸

noun:

• tool used to extract combusted tobacco from a kiseru pipe

noun:

• triangular sink tidy (usu. used to strain waste)

noun:

• flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling (usu. rectangular) - archaism ➜ 座布団

noun:

• sack used to filter liquids (e.g. drinking water, etc.)

noun:

• Japanized version of classical Chinese (used from Heian period onward)

noun:

• Japanese-style desk (short, used while sitting on the floor)

noun:

• evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine) ➜ 賢木

noun:

• round bronze jar used for storing alcohol (Han dynasty China)

noun:

• vinegared water, used for dampening the hands when making sushi - Food term ➜ 酢水

noun:

• ivory-like plastic (used for mahjong tiles, shogi pieces, etc.)

noun:

• historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Emishi
• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) ［えぞ］ ➜ 蝦夷地

noun:

• achieving over 300 runs, hitting over 30 home runs and stealing over 30 bases in a season - Baseball term - From English "triple three"

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes - four character idiom ➜ 同工異曲【どうこういきょく】

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.)
• to intersect; to cross; to interlace

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• ... with one another; ... to each other - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area
• miso mixed with crab innards or scraps

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed