noun:

• boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)

noun:

• persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period) ➜ 男伊達

noun:

• briefly-boiled chicken breast (served cold and mostly raw as sashimi with wasabi-seasoned shoyu)

noun:

• gemstone totem (esp. as jewelry); healing crystal - From English "power stone"
• Power Stone (video game series)

noun:

• kidney grille; two-section rounded radiator grill, as used on BMW vehicles

adjective:

• slow; time-consuming; sluggish ［遅い・鈍い・遲い］
• late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); until a time far into the day or night ［遅い・晩い・遲い］
• later (than expected or usual); late; behind schedule; behind time; tardy; overdue; unpunctual ［遅い・晩い・遲い］
• too late; having missed the boat ［遅い・晩い・遲い］
• dull; stupid ［遅い・鈍い・遲い］ - archaism

adjective:

• hard; solid; tough - esp. 固い and 堅い for wood, 硬い for metal and stone
• stiff; tight; wooden; unpolished (e.g. writing)
• strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved)
• safe; steady; honest; steadfast
• obstinate; stubborn
• bookish; formal; stuffy Antonym: 砕けた

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention ➜ 相槌【あいづち】

noun:

• someone (e.g. a woman) who is out of one's league; something beyond one's means

expression:

• any port will do in a storm; when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune [literal] - proverb

expression:

• don't be a sore loser; don't make excuses for your failures; a defeated general should not talk of strategy [literal] - proverb

noun:

• meal with family members eating separate foods
• eating alone (not with one's family)
• food sold in single servings ［個食・こ食］

noun:

• the real pleasure (of something); the real thrill; the true charm
• flavour of ghee; "delicious taste" [figurative] ➜ 醍醐
• Buddha's gracious teachings - Buddhism term

noun:

• the Emperor; His Majesty - honorific language
• the government; the authorities - honorific language
• proprietress; hostess; landlady; mistress - also written 女将 ➜ 女将
• your wife; his wife - also written 御内儀 or 内儀 - honorific language - archaism
• (one's) master; lord - honorific language - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes - idiom ➜ 目からウロコの落ちる

noun:

• method of patterning traditional Japanese clothing (the tops of all of patterns being pointed at the highest part of the shoulder)

noun:

• gold wheel (highest of the three layered wheels that support the earth above the primordial void) - Buddhism term
• gold wheel-turning sage king - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 金輪王

noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

noun:

• self-inflicted accident; traffic accident where injury is caused by one's own negligence; one-car accident

noun:

• tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; non-Buddhist - Buddhism term Antonym: 内道
• heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; heresy; heretic
• demon; fiend; devil; brute; bad person - derogatory term
• type of fish one did not intend to catch

noun:

• something not seen or experienced - From French "jamais vu" ➜ デジャブ

noun:

• nut (as in nut and bolt)
• natural unit of information content; nat

noun:

• Generally Recognized as Safe list (Recognised); GRAS list

noun:

• something already finished (accomplished, etc.) ➜ 未遂
• perpetrated crime (as opposed to attempted crime)

noun:

• infusion of kudzu, cinnamon, etc., used as an antifebrile, for hangovers, etc.