noun:

• cold rice
• hanger-on; dependent ［ひやめし］ - abbreviation ➜ 冷や飯食い【ひやめしくい】
• disgraced former actor ［ひやめし］

expression / noun:

• prohibition on women entering (usu. for religious reasons); no female admission

noun:

• ballast; crushed stone, gravel, etc. used on a roadbed or railway track - abbreviation ➜ バラスト

noun:

• set of dishes served on an individual tray for entertaining guests; banquet ➜ 懐石料理

expression:

• sweet words only please a fool; flattery works on puppets and fools - proverb

noun:

• overnight stay when traveling (travelling) ➜ 旅寝
• sleeping on grass in an open field

noun:

• hanger-on; follower; flunky; sycophant
• purse strapped round one's waist

noun:

• pattern made from chrysanthemums with disordered petals, esp. used on family crests

noun:

• two operating systems on a computer; double-boot - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• focus of one's attention (on a specific field); commitment to something

noun:

• clothes a wrestler wears when he has his belt on - Sumo term

noun:

• mercantile mind-set; mercenary spirit; being intent on making a profit - four character idiom

noun:

• terminal bonus; lump sum when policy matures
• payout on cancellation of contract

noun:

• being devoted; spending all one's time and energy on

noun:

• ukebana; lotus-shaped support on a pedestal, lantern, pagoda finial, etc.

noun:

• late 19C woodblock prints, using imported aniline dyes
• red painting on ceramics

noun:

• gold braid (e.g. on a military officer's uniform)

noun:

• quale; qualia (qualities or feelings considered independently of their effects on behavior)

noun:

• experienced value (marketing term used for valuing products on customer subjective basis)

noun:

• neckband; round upright collar (on some traditional Japanese clothing) ➜ 上頸

expression:

• head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

noun:

• Amarna letters (archive of Egyptian correspondence, recorded on clay tablets)

noun:

• map (or diagram, etc.) folded with a cover on each side - obscure term

noun:

• Toranomon Incident; assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito, Dec. 27, 1923

noun:

• short clip used to begin and end commercial breaks on Japanese TV - From English "eyecatch"