noun:

• Edo term used to debase people from Kansai - archaism

noun:

• child from an earlier wife ➜ 後腹【あとばら】
• preceding one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku) ［さきばら］ ➜ 追い腹

noun:

• cloth made from kudzu (Japanese arrowroot) fiber (fibre)

noun / ~する noun:

• recovery from an illness

noun:

• girl from Hawaii ➜ ロコ

noun:

• active substance from plants used in manufacture of soap, detergents and medication - From German "Saponin"

noun:

• letter from home

noun:

• getting big laughs just from appearing on the stage (or screen, etc.) ➜ 落ち

noun:

• (in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt

noun:

• demon of the sixth heaven in the realm of desire who tries to prevent people from doing good - Buddhism term ➜ 四魔

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• broadcast in which participants speak from different stations

noun:

• the part of the fruit from which the flower has dropped

noun:

• immunity from arrest (i.e. of Diet members or foreign diplomats); diplomatic immunity; parliamentary immunity; legislative immunity

noun:

• obsolete rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same group of stables - Sumo term

noun:

• cash gift from local government to the elderly (often on 77th and 88th birthdays)

noun:

• grandchild from a daughter married into another family

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to withdraw from someone's presence; to leave the room

noun:

• coarse silk from the outside of a cocoon (a type of waste thread)

ichidan verb:

• to understand from experience

noun:

• type of faceted glass from Edo ➜ 切り子ガラス

noun:

• ground stone tool from the late Jomon period (named after its similarity to the Buddhist tokko) ➜ 独鈷

noun:

• writing from right to left

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take candy from a baby; to accomplish something with ease; to twist a baby's arm [literal] - idiom ➜ 赤子の腕をひねる

noun:

• wrinkled hands from being in water; washerwoman's hands