noun:

• box set at a gate of a home or near the front door, used for receiving deliveries of newspapers, mail, milk, etc.

noun:

• style of speaking in which the speaker gives the end of each sentence or phrase a higher intonation - From English "up talk"

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change clothes (on someone else, e.g. child, doll); to change the wallpaper or skin (of a smart phone, etc.)

auxiliary:

• word used at sentence-end (like a particle) to indicate speculation, volition or invitation - Kantō, Tōhoku dialect ➜ 可い

suffix:

• familiar suffix used after a personal name ［ぺ］

noun:

• coping; top rail; cap piece; head board; what covers the top of a wall, torii or gate, not necessarily made of wood - Architecture term

noun:

• monkey booze; sake-like liquid produced by the fermentation of fruits left by monkeys in tree caches or hollows in rocks

noun:

• Shunkei lacquerware; lacquerware created using transparent lacquer on yellow- or red-stained wood, allowing the natural wood grain to be seen

noun:

• string tied to the chest of one's kimono or haori
• childhood (period where one would wear such a string) - archaism

noun:

• gratuitous scene inserted in a narrative (in anime, etc.); scene designed purely to excite or titillate the viewer - From English "service cut"

expression:

• something-something; something or other

expression:

• something something; something or other

noun / ~する noun:

• participation in a war; going to war
• "taking part in a competition or contest" [figurative]

noun:

• incarnation (of Buddha or bodhisattva); avatar - Buddhism term ➜ 実化
• embodiment (as in "embodiment of evil"); incarnation; personification

noun:

• ear (e.g. of wheat) ［穂先］
• tip (e.g. of brush or spear); spearhead ➜ 矛先【ほこさき】

godan ~す verb:

• to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate

noun:

• extremely important or once in a lifetime (request); only once in one's lifetime - four character idiom

noun:

• my mixi; refers to the 'friend list' on mixi (or people on that list) - abbreviation ➜ マイミクシィ

noun:

• my mixi; refers to the 'friend list' on mixi (or people on that list) ➜ マイミク

noun:

• tatami room - polite language ➜ 座敷
• dinner party in a tatami room with a geisha or maiko ➜ 座敷

noun / ~の noun:

• early ripening rice - usu. 早稲
• early-ripening fruit (grain, etc.) - usu. 早生
• person who becomes physically or mentally mature at an early age - usu. 早生

noun:

• existence (as we perceive it) is as mutable and incorporeal as is the morning dew or a flash of lightning - obscure term - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• child; children - archaism
• child servant; temple page
• my (young or child-like) wife - humble language
• young slacker (who has not yet attained adulthood)

noun:

• word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji" ➜ 女房詞

noun:

• individually "washing" a partner's fingers or toes in one's vagina (esp. as a service at a soapland) - slang ➜ ソープランド

noun:

• rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil - abbreviation - Shintō term ➜ 注連縄
• cordoning off; cordoning-off sign - archaism