noun:

• period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
• apprenticeship; indentureship; indenture - abbreviation ➜ 年季奉公
• one-year period ［年期］

noun:

• regional Sanuki cuisine, usu. of minced vegetables, seafood, and vinegared miso - from 鉄砲和え ➜ 鉄砲和え

noun:

• proportion of forested land; proportion of land which is forested

noun:

• results of the vote count

noun:

• one's philosophy of life - four character idiom

noun:

• name of the writer of a gravestone epitaph, engraved after the epitaph

noun:

• freestanding building, often in a park, used for receptions, dinners, etc. - From English "restaurant house"

noun / ~する noun:

• a bath; bathing

noun:

• minister without a portfolio

noun:

• area of study (investigation); research area

noun:

• (Shorin-ryu) Okinawa school of karate - Martial Arts term

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering - four character idiom

noun:

• first division of the night (approx. 7 pm to 9 pm) - archaism

noun:

• light of Buddhism

expression / godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to combine parts of two different things into a new thing; to compromise; to balance out

noun:

• ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)

noun:

• Filipino national dish of braised chicken or pork

noun:

• selling on a (monthly) installment plan (instalment); hire purchase

noun:

• copying calligraphy from a model ➜ 臨書

noun:

• head of a pipe, incl. the bowl and stem attachment
• neck; head - colloquialism

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books - From English "head band" ➜ 花布

noun:

• day of departure ➜ 出発当日

noun:

• a minor success

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages)

noun:

• decisive battle of brief duration - four character idiom