noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

expression / adjective:

• broad-minded ➜ 懐の深い
• (of a rikishi) tall, with long reach, making it harder for their opponent to get a grip on their mawashi

noun:

• purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline - Architecture term ➜ 母屋桁
• main building (of a manor) ➜ 母屋【おもや】
• central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to wake up; to awake
• to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to become conscious of; to realize
• to come to one's senses

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to have someone send (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (via someone else); to leave (a message) with someone
• to use as an excuse; to make a pretext of - archaism

noun:

• three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing) ➜ 落ち【おち】

noun:

• renting a house in the same block of houses as somebody else ➜ 相借家【あいじゃくや】
• person who rents a house in the same block of houses as oneself ➜ 相借家【あいじゃくや】

noun:

• renting a house in the same block of houses as somebody else ➜ 相店【あいだな】
• person who rents a house in the same block of houses as oneself ➜ 相店【あいだな】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to hang on to; to hang from; to cling to
• to hound; to keep after (someone); to refuse to back down; to persist; to tenaciously face (someone); to doggedly oppose
• to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; leadership; instruction; direction; coaching

noun:

• shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo) - Martial Arts term

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• usually; ordinarily
• continuous; 24-hour (e.g. observation, operation (of a machine), care (of patient)); always on

noun:

• sharpness; cutting ability
• quickness (of wit); incisiveness; technical proficiency; skill
• peppiness (of a ball) - in ball sports

noun:

• chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook - Kantō dialect ➜ 板場【いたば】
• area of a kitchen that contains the chopping board - orig. meaning

noun:

• Levite; member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi (who served a religious function)

noun:

• Edo-period unit of gold coinage ［金目］
• golden eyes (of a cat, etc.)
• splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens) - abbreviation ➜ 金目鯛

noun:

• tenkasu; crunchy bits of deep-fried dough produced as a byproduct of cooking tempura ➜ 天ぷら

expression:

• financially ruining oneself by buying too many clothes (as a fabled tendency of the people of Kyoto) ➜ 大阪の食い倒れ・着倒れ

noun:

• pit (of a fruit); stone - obscure term
• core
• tongue (piece of wood used to connect two boards)
• clitoris

noun:

• sense of enhanced value of a commodity or service (e.g. from quality, scarcity, etc.)

noun:

• highest honorifics; honorific language mainly reserved for speaking of or to a member of the Imperial family - Linguistics term

noun:

• throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 棟上げ式【むねあげしき】

noun:

• throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 餅まき

noun:

• gallery (of a theatre)
• audience (at a theatre); the masses; the general public

noun / ~の noun:

• (a woman of) unparalleled beauty; (a woman's beauty being) matchless throughout the land - four character idiom

noun:

• (in P2P networks) a program that monitors (and adjusts) activity of a P2P program - colloquialism - IT term ➜ モニター