noun:

• four posts that used to support the roof over the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• internal organs such as heart, liver, kidneys used as food

noun:

• vacuum bag (used to make clothes, futons, etc. easier to store)

noun:

• gallon bottle; three litre glass bottle used for pharmaceuticals

noun:

• galley; tray used for printing ［ゲラ］
• galley proof ［ゲラ］ - abbreviation ➜ ゲラ刷り
• one who laughs easily - Kansai dialect ➜ ゲラゲラ

noun / suffix noun:

• Sister (i.e. a nun; sometimes used as a posthumous suffix) - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 居士

noun:

• coarse rice granules (used when making candy); roughly ground rice flour ➜ 微塵粉

noun:

• used car; secondhand car

expression:

• complete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time); What appeared wrong in the past now appears right; realizing and regretting the past errors of one's ways - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• tarsal (relating to the tarsus - a group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a nutshell; in a word; to cut a long story short

noun:

• fate; destiny
• connection; tie; bond; origin
• pretext; justification
• hetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things) - Buddhism term

expression:

• take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die [literal]

noun:

• Abenomics; economic and monetary policies of Shinzo Abe, 90th and 96th prime minister of Japan, during his second term

noun:

• New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

noun:

• rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil - Shintō term

noun / ~する noun:

• shading; color; colour
• kumadori; style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles

noun:

• netsuke; miniature buttonlike carving used to hang personal items from a (man's) kimono sash

noun:

• Miura map fold; special technique for folding used on some solar panel arrays

expression:

• phrase used (usu. with accompanying crossed fingers gesture) to ward off catching 'dirtiness' from another child - children's language ➜ えんがちょ

auxiliary:

• word used at sentence-end (like a particle) to indicate speculation, volition or invitation - archaism - Kantō, Tōhoku dialect
• should; must ➜ 可き

noun:

• ghost runner; placeholder used when fewer than 9 members are present on a team - Baseball term

noun:

• family crest based on a japonica flower - archaism
• style of jōruri narrative used for kabuki dances - archaism ➜ 常磐津【ときわず】

noun:

• kidney grille; two-section rounded radiator grill, as used on BMW vehicles

expression / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom