noun:

• (on the) bridge

noun:

• rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day) - Food term

noun:

• bruise (on fruit, etc.)

noun:

• strong local wind blowing around the Hira mountains in Shiga prefecture (sinks boats on the lake and stops trains of the Kosei Line)

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• execution (on the command of a feudal lord) - archaism

noun:

• message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.) - slang

noun:

• happy trail (line of hair from the navel to the genitals); pubic hair

noun:

• style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho) ➜ 天明・蕉風
• style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo) ➜ 狂歌

noun:

• stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus - obscure term ➜ 地謡前

noun:

• hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body) ➜ 半身不随

noun:

• New Year's banquet (held annually by the emperor on Jan. 5, prior to WWII)
• New Year's party ➜ 新年会

noun:

• chocolate given to a friend (on Valentine's day)

noun:

• Roe v. Wade (landmark United States Supreme Court decision disallowing many legal restrictions on abortion, 1973)

godan ~る verb:

• to fabricate (stories) (based on alleged behaviour of the Asahi newspaper); to make up - slang - humorous term

noun:

• Yatagarasu (mythical raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition) - obscure term ➜ 八咫烏
• three-legged crow inhabiting the sun in Chinese mythology ➜ 八咫烏

noun:

• correct Chinese (on) pronunciation of a character

noun:

• (a line, queue) being long and serpentine - four character idiom

noun:

• Nivkh (ethnic minority group of Russia, living near the Amur river and on Sakhalin)

noun:

• random pounding (e.g. on a drum)

noun:

• spinnerule (small spinning tube on a spinneret) - obscure term ➜ 糸疣

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year) - obscure term ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• redundant system (string, line)

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Wang Yangming and his followers) ➜ 朱子学

noun:

• homeless people (living on the street)