noun:

• superficial (shortsighted) way of thinking; half-baked (foolish, ill-advised) idea - four character idiom ➜ 鼻先思案

noun:

• mendicant Zen priest of the Fuke sect - archaism ➜ 虚無僧

noun:

• infringement of the law

noun:

• unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items

noun:

• ninja weapon disguised as a pair of garden shears

noun:

• ridges on a blade (sword, knife, etc.)
• ridged pattern in building

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan ➜ あいの風

noun:

• Minister of State (Zhou-dynasty China) ➜ 六卿

noun:

• winding a replacement thread, wire, etc.
• changing from an overarm to an underarm grip on one's opponent's belt - Sumo term

expression:

• the sand on the beach may disappear, but the makings of thieves never shall (Ishikawa Goemon)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a cutting remark; to kill someone with a short blade [literal] - idiom

noun:

• system of government

noun:

• interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace ➜ 寝殿造り

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

noun:

• all the papers (documents) relating to a case; dossier

expression / ichidan verb:

• to admit a patient

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to brave a danger; to take a risk

noun:

• higher forms of life

noun:

• Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement (1960)

noun:

• black-skinned variety of watermelon

noun / ~と adverb:

• sound of the expulsion of soft matter mixed with water; diarrhea, etc. sounds; watery - onomatopoeia

adverb / noun:

• middle of the month

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard) - abbreviation ➜ 金鍔焼き
• metal sword guard; polearm - archaism

noun:

• period of time in which to recharge one's batteries

noun / ~する noun:

• enrolment of a child in a kindergarten