noun:

• name of a note in a movable do solfège system - Music term

noun:

• bojutsu (art of using a stick as a weapon); cudgels

noun / ~する noun:

• return toss (e.g. from a catcher to a pitcher)

noun / ~する noun:

• identifying a severed head
• checking a person's identity

noun:

• corpse of a person who has met a violent death

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• auscultation; listening to a person's chest with a stethoscope - Medicine term

noun:

• killing a passerby in order to test a new sword

expression:

• being a member of staff but useless as a worker

expression / noun:

• well-matched contest; fight between a dragon and a tiger [literal]

noun:

• "pocket Hello Kitty" that combines a pedometer and a tamagotchi - abbreviation

noun / ~する noun:

• (a bar hostess) coming to work accompanied by a customer - four character idiom

noun:

• ceramics with a blue pattern on a white background

expression:

• discouraged person; (like a) sheep being led to a slaughterhouse

noun:

• style of garden that features a path around a pond - obscure term

noun:

• bunbuku chagama (a mythical raccoon dog transformed into a teapot)

noun:

• call number (e.g. of a book in a library)

expression:

• a drowning man will catch at a straw - proverb

noun:

• clay face (made like a mask or as a decoration)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• ding; chime (sound of a bell or a small gong) - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to a club (one was formerly a member of) - colloquialism - obscure term

noun:

• signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)

expression:

• You must lose a fly to catch a trout - idiom

noun:

• running style (of a horse, e.g. a front runner)

noun:

• papercraft sculpture representing a scene akin to a painting

noun:

• coating a painting with a layer of transparent oil