expression / adjective:

• comfortable to live in

noun:

• break in contact; not hearing from; having no communication with - four character idiom

noun:

• diligence in studying (e.g. continuing to study even in such poor light as offered by a firefly or that reflected by snow); diligent study

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• in the dark

noun:

• formal noh performed in full costume ➜ 袴能

noun:

• trade barrier

noun:

• quantity or value of goods laid in

noun:

• San-in region of western Honshu (incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures)

noun:

• reciprocal trade

noun:

• most experienced chanko cook in the sumo stable - Sumo term

noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

noun:

• lying-in bed

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to hold a memorial service for the dead, praying for their happiness in the next life by chanting sutras - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Financial Affairs

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to have long in use

godan ~う verb:

• to fail in making

noun:

• horse entered in a race

noun / ~する noun:

• staying for two or more nights in a row (e.g. at a hotel)

noun:

• a cold in the throat; common cold with a sore throat

noun:

• appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation - four character idiom

noun:

• area in Tokyo
• Japanese government departments (euph)

noun:

• eat-in kitchen; combination kitchen-dining room - From English "dining kitchen"