noun:

• (of clerical script) horizontal lines ending in a noticeable triangular tail ➜ 八分【はっぷん】

noun / ~の noun:

• walk-in; person who walks into a hotel, etc. without a reservation

noun:

• walk-in closet - abbreviation ➜ ウオークインクロゼット

noun:

• dialects of Japanese spoken in Eastern Tottori prefecture ➜ 出雲弁

noun:

• woman factory worker in weaving industry

pronoun:

• honorific used in company correspondence

expression:

• to be in order; to be right

noun:

• side dish served in order to encourage the consumption of alcohol (kaiseki cuisine) ➜ 懐石料理

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Economic and Fiscal Policy

noun:

• light that is said to be emitted from some hair or tuft in Buddha's forehead; ray of light from the tuft of white hair (between the eyebrows) - from 白毫相光 - abbreviation

noun / ~する noun:

• die in battle; die in action - sensitive

noun:

• purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get a lump in one's throat; to overflow with feelings; to be overwhelmed with emotion ➜ 胸一杯

noun:

• lever mechanism, e.g. in bicycle brakes, metal shears, etc.

noun:

• main building in a Heian palace ➜ 寝殿造
• (historical) main residence of an emperor

~と adverb / adverb:

• in a big way - onomatopoeia

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take in (light, wind, etc.) ➜ 取り込む

noun / ~する noun:

• explanation in common language

noun:

• oval tub or tray used in fish shops

noun:

• type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

noun:

• infirm of purpose and lacking in decision - four character idiom

noun:

• private constitutional drafts prepared before the adoption of the Meiji Constitution in 1889

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun:

• stay in hospital; hospital stay

noun:

• lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods