noun:

• rhyme ➜ 韻を踏む

noun:

• peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu) - archaism ➜ 蝦夷
• provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city)
• brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan)
• foreigner; barbarian - derogatory term

noun:

• mixture of vinegar and some other flavouring (e.g. soy sauce, sugar, etc.) - Food term ➜ 合わせ酢

noun:

• bonus paid to employees on occasion of a full house

noun:

• other side; another side; different angle

adverbial noun:

• on the other hand

adverb:

• somehow or other; for some reason

noun / ~の noun:

• something or other

expression / noun:

• Day of the Rat (esp. the first Day of the Rat in the New Year)
• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots - abbreviation ➜ 子の日の遊び
• pine shoot pulled out in such a manner ➜ 子の日の松

noun / adjectival noun:

• mincing; chopping finely

adjectival noun / noun:

• short and repeated (movements) (e.g. trembling, stepping quickly)
• gradual; bit by bit; little by little

noun:

• fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories

noun:

• fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories - abbreviation ➜ お姉系ギャル

noun:

• spring dust [literal]; frost and snow that's blown like dust in the air by the spring wind

noun:

• execution by decapitation, followed by public display of the body (form of punishment in ancient China) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• offset; offsetting each other; cancelling each other out; counterbalancing

noun:

• set-off; setoff - Law term

noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented - abbreviation ➜ 草食系男子
• men who pretend they aren't interested in women; spineless males; men with no balls - abbreviation - slang

noun:

• first and second; A and B
• superiority and (or) inferiority; distinction (in quality); discernment; discrimination

noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism

ichidan verb:

• to be used to calling (someone by a certain name)

pronoun:

• we (esp. used by merchants, etc.); my store; my shop - humble language

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping
• intentional negligence
• tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)

noun:

• education in art and design; education in drawing and manual arts - four character idiom

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

noun:

• countries that currently use Chinese characters in their writing, or have used in their recent past - abbreviation ➜ 漢字文化圏【かんじぶんかけん】