noun:

• game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture

noun:

• stamp book; pilgrim's passport; souvenir seal albumn; book for collecting commemorative seals or stamps (at tourist sights, temples, shrines, etc.)

noun:

• stamp book; pilgrim's passport; souvenir seal albumn; book for collecting commemorative seals or stamps (at tourist sights, temples, shrines, etc.)

noun:

• official notice
• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ［お触れ・御触れ］ - abbreviation ➜ お触書

noun / ~する noun:

• unwinding of funds transfer obligations; requesting a bank to return money that was transferred (e.g in error or in excess)

adverb / ~の noun:

• much more; still more; all the more; more than ever

noun / ~の noun:

• single layer (or storey, etc.)

adverb:

• rather; sooner; preferably - archaism ➜ いっそ

noun:

• mother's body (esp. when pregnant or after giving birth)
• parent body; parent organization; base; basis; nucleus

adverb / ~と adverb:

• tap; rap-tap; tapping - onomatopoeia
• without delay; smoothly; without a hitch

adjectival noun:

• even; equal; with no advantage or disadvantage

noun:

• bones left after cremation (esp. those of a Buddha or Boddhisatva) - Buddhism term
• grain of rice; cooked rice ［しゃり］ ➜ しゃり

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it); to survive a fire

noun:

• contract (entered into on the basis of a promise or previous agreement); formal agreement; contract at hand

noun:

• glowing ember (either red hot charcoal or the glowing remains of burnt firewood); live charcoal ➜ 燠【おき】

noun / ~する noun:

• pouring alcohol
• person pouring alcohol for guests or customers (typically a woman)
• (apprentice) geisha; dancing girl

noun:

• story about human nature or emotions (esp. rakugo); emotional rakugo story lacking a punch line ➜ 落語

expression:

• almost never; few and far between; little or nothing; hardly any; hardly anything at all; very little

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• glasses and plates being scattered about after a party or banquet; articles lying about in a jumble - archaism - four character idiom

adverb / ~する noun:

• sound of something thick and soft being pierced by something sharp and hard - onomatopoeia
• containing sullen anger or discontent

noun:

• high knee (exercise drill where one brings one's knees up high while walking or running)

expression:

• in that case; (might not be what was expected or hoped for but) if that's the case

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

~する noun:

• swat - to hit with a sharp slapping blow usually with an instrument (as a bat or flyswatter)

noun:

• purifying salt ［塩花・鹽花］ - archaism
• pile of salt placed by the door of a shop or restaurant ［塩花・鹽花］
• whitecap

noun:

• funny word or gesture
• funny part (in a puppet show, kabuki, etc.)
• a woman's temple hair - archaism ➜ 揉み上げ【もみあげ】

noun:

• crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal

noun:

• custom of tying a large mochi on a toddler's back on his or her first birthday