noun:

• center for collecting charitable contributions (money, goods, and-or services) and distributing them to people in need - four character idiom

expression:

• inconsiderate (of rudeness, danger or rules)

noun:

• bowing one's head (in respect or worship); worship

suffix noun:

• respectfully yours - after one's own name at the end of a letter - honorific language

noun:

• boned rib (esp. of pork or beef)

noun:

• government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryo - archaism ➜ 令【りょう】・律令【りつりょう】

noun:

• (in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song ➜ 序破急

noun:

• shake-hands grip (in ping-pong, table tennis)

noun:

• (stare or glare with) scornful eyes; reproachful eyes; disgusted eyes - manga slang

noun:

• auspicious characters (used in people or place names)

noun:

• rare (or peculiar) animal

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡

adjective:

• smelling (or tasting) burnt

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior) - idiom

noun:

• yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram) ➜ 卦

noun:

• one-armed shoulder throw (judo or sumo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term

noun:

• (approx.) 2 o'clock (am or pm) - archaism

~の noun / noun:

• authorized (by imperial or royal order); authorised; appointed; enacted; established

noun:

• main text (as opposed to any included commentary or annotations)
• authentic text (e.g. of a treaty, as opposed to any translation not specified as authentic) - Law term
• Chinese classical literature

noun:

• tiqin (2 or 4-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
• violin ➜ バイオリン

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• attributive form (of a Japanese verb or adjective)) - Linguistics term

noun / ~の noun:

• (animal or plant) scale

noun:

• audio book (book read onto CD or tape)

noun:

• person who brags about (or prides themselves on) their fishing skill

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to read through (difficult passage or particularly long book)