noun:

• Chūgoku region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures)

noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun:

• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

adverb:

• bound hand and foot; hedged in (e.g. by restrictions); immobile

noun / ~する noun:

• airing of clothes, hanging scrolls, etc. (to prevent damage from insects and mould) ➜ 土用干し

noun:

• heated stone (wrapped in cloth and kept next to the body for warmth)

noun:

• palisade; stakes planted at irregular angles and intervals as a defensive barrier

noun:

• hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry

noun:

• Asama-Sanso incident (famous hostage crisis and police siege in Feb. 1972)

noun:

• facility that serves meals and provides rooms for short-stay or overnight guests - abbreviation - From English "restaurant hotel" ➜ レストランホテル

noun:

• understanding and acceptance; spiritual awakening; a heart that understands truth; (feeling of) resignation

noun:

• trehalose (used in foods as a sweetener, stabilizer and flavor enhancer) (stabiliser) (flavour)

noun:

• referee officiating at bouts of rank-and-file wrestlers in the highest division - Sumo term

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• safety (well-being) of one's family; peace and prosperity in the household

noun:

• perception through the six senses (of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and consciousness) - four character idiom

noun:

• high mountains and running water; the beauty of nature - four character idiom
• beautifully (skillfully) played music

noun:

• being excused from various levies and taxes during the age of militarist government - four character idiom

noun:

• elegant appreciation of nature through artistic pursuits such as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• (with) unkempt hair and dirty face; being indifferent to one's personal appearance - four character idiom

noun:

• style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof

noun:

• dogcatcher; person who used to catch dogs and execute them for rabies prevention - slang