noun:

• event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2nd Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to remonstrate; to admonish (someone) for; to advise (someone) not to; to warn against

expression / ichidan verb:

• to determine whether something is right or wrong; to make something clear; to settle a matter - colloquialism

noun:

• meat of a fish (e.g. tuna) that is dark red with blood, usu. coming from the parts close to the spine

expression / noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit with a sacred wooden pole on the rump to ensure her fertility - obscure term ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• clearance (e.g. clearance sale); selling off; selling out; sellout
• selling (accepting only a single payment)
• bond transaction not subject to repurchase

noun:

• will; resolution; intention; ambition; aim; goal
• kindness; goodwill; kind offer
• gift (as a token of gratitude)

noun:

• prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier - abbreviation ➜ 内閣総理大臣

noun / ~する noun:

• leading; overseeing; leader; overseer; president - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• actual (as opposed to hidden or obscured); obvious; clear; manifest; explicit; overt; apparent; evident; actualized; actualised

noun:

• rain chain (hanging from a gutter and functioning as downspout, often made of ornamental cups)

noun:

• rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil - Shintō term

noun:

• shawm-like instrument played by street vendors (sometimes referred to as a flute) - From Portuguese "charamela" ➜ 哨吶【さない】

noun / ~する noun:

• obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale - abbreviation - From English "flying get" ➜ フライングゲット

noun:

• fulcrum peg (fitted into the cavity in an oar as part of a traditional oarlock) ➜ 入れ子

noun:

• fulcrum peg (fitted into the cavity in an oar as part of a traditional oarlock) - obscure term ➜ 櫓杭

noun:

• thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods) - archaism

noun:

• homophone; word with the same pronunciation and similar meaning as another but a different written form

noun / ~する noun:

• re-pellet (plastics industry); regrind; grinding plastic scraps into small pieces as a form of recycling

noun:

• Orectolobidae (family containing eleven species in three genera of carpet sharks known as wobbegongs)

noun:

• Apristurus (genus of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae known as ghost or demon catsharks)

noun:

• unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin) - archaism ➜ 陰陽道・天一神・方違え

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