noun:

• contradictio in adjecto; contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies (wooden iron, hot ice, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up while hitting the ball; keeping one's chin up and not looking at the ball while hitting it - Sports term - From English "head up"

noun:

• two existences; the present and the future - Buddhism term

noun:

• Habutae mochi; mochi smooth and white like habutae silk

noun:

• miscellaneous recyclable paper; recyclable paper other than old newspapers and carton boxes ➜ 古紙

adjectival noun:

• rock hard; stiff and unyielding (personality)

noun:

• clangor

noun:

• mask squeeze; unequal pressure between the mask air space and the vascular pressure within the blood vessels of the face

noun:

• Cucurbita pepo; diverse species that includes many varieties of pumpkin, squash and zucchini ➜ ペポ南瓜【ペポカボチャ】

noun:

• making a swift decision; making immediate decisions and taking quick actions - four character idiom

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

noun:

• pomato; cross of a tomato and a potato

noun:

• having one's workplace at home; living and working at the same location (independent farmers, home workers, storekeepers, etc.) - four character idiom

adverb / ~の noun:

• repeatedly; over and over again

adverb:

• fully (e.g. understand); very much; very well; exceedingly

noun:

• civet; stew of a game animal, red wine and various alliums (often thickened with the animal's blood) - Food term - From French

noun:

• arm-barring force out; locking arms around an opponent and pushing him out of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• Parascylliidae; family of collared carpet sharks containing eight species and two genera

noun:

• 1955 System; Japanese political alignment with the LDP in government and the JSP in opposition, which lasted until 1993 ➜ 自由民主党【じゆうみんしゅとう】・日本社会党【にっぽんしゃかいとう】

noun:

• not getting along well with each other; being like water and oil - four character idiom

noun:

• elaborated cloth; figured silk and thin silk

noun:

• Panthalassa; vast global ocean during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic periods

noun:

• stir-frying then boiling in liquid sauce; food that has been stir-fried and boiled in liquid sauce - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ 炒め煮

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable - proverb

noun:

• backslapping; a smile and a tap on the shoulder [literal]
• backslapper; someone who smiles and gives you a slap on the shoulder; someone who wins people over

expression:

• beauties die young; beauty and luck seldom go together - four character idiom

noun:

• estate; homestead; house and land (it stands on); messuage