noun:

• noninclusion in a team; not being chosen to play - Sports term

noun / ~する noun:

• adopting (novel, etc.) for the theatre (theater)

noun:

• place for showering next to a tub

noun:

• stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• remaining in obscurity

noun:

• Japanese box tree (Buxus microphylla var. japonica); Japanese boxwood

noun:

• flower placement in a hanging vessel

noun / ~する noun:

• chip-in (golf, basketball, etc.) - Sports term

expression / adjective:

• bad for the eyes

expression / noun:

• parents' partiality for their children; parents overvaluing their children

noun:

• people living in the country; people living inland; Japanese in Japan proper; people living on Honshu

noun:

• built-in variable; predefined variable - IT term

noun:

• searching for a marriage partner; marriage hunting; activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc.

noun:

• special class for handicapped children

noun:

• quilt coverlet for a kotatsu ➜ 炬燵

noun:

• paper weight in gsm

noun:

• model featured in an advertising campaign - abbreviation - From English "campaign girl"

noun:

• place for relaxation and refreshment

noun:

• kindling burned in shrines and temples - archaism
• special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year) - archaism
• kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryo period - archaism

noun:

• picture calendar for illiterates - sensitive

noun:

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

noun:

• the lust for conquest

expression / adverb:

• for amusement; by way of diversion (distraction from grief)

noun:

• someone or something that just gets in the way; a burden ➜ 荷物

noun:

• standard measurement for the distance between pillars in eastern Japan (approx. 182 cm) ➜ 田舎間
• Kanto-size tatami mat (approx. 176 cm by 88 cm) ➜ 田舎間