noun:

• giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 降り【おり】

noun:

• having too many tiles on one's hand - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• ban on maritime activities during China's Ming and Qing dynasties

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to travel on frequently (e.g. a road or path)

noun / adverb:

• flushness (esp. of wheels and fenders on an automobile); tsuraichi

noun / ~する noun:

• sprinkling salt on a raw vegetable and rubbing it in - Food term ➜ 揉む【もむ】

noun:

• metal frame stairs or ladders found on military and commercial ships - From German "Leiter"

noun:

• combined umbrella and halberd carried on floats in some festivals

noun:

• sawachi ryouri; assorted cold food served on a large plate

noun:

• computer game based on music and rhythm - abbreviation ➜ 音楽ゲーム

interjection:

• I'm ready!; Bring it on! - slang

noun:

• lussekatt; Scandinavian saffron bun traditionally eaten on St Lucy's Day - From Swedish

noun:

• patterned cloth laid on a table or Buddhist altar; antependium

noun:

• curry and rice (esp. on school menus) - From English "curry stew" ➜ カレーライス

adverb / ~と adverb:

• focussing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• selfish; self-serving - onomatopoeia

noun:

• mixture of mayonnaise and canned tuna, used on bread, pasta, etc. - abbreviation ➜ ツナマヨネーズ

noun:

• outline; main point; gist

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• general; substantially; approximately; about
• in the first place; to begin with; from the start

noun:

• the northeastern (unlucky) direction; person or thing to be avoided; the demon's gate [literal]
• weak point; Achilles' heel

noun:

• the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat) - four character idiom

noun:

• Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock)

noun:

• outdoor bench (placed under the eaves of a house and used for cooling off during the summer)

noun:

• sky burial (funeral ritual in which the body of the deceased is exposed to be eaten by birds)

noun:

• historical system whereby the Hida region provided 10 carpenters per village the central government in place of taxes

noun:

• motor cortex (area of the brain just anterior to the central sulcus responsible for controlling voluntary muscle activity)

noun:

• "winner" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the most) - slang ➜ 割り勘負け