noun:

• manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) - honorific language ➜ 用人

noun:

• stealing a car by rear-ending it lightly and having a friend jump in and drive off after the driver gets out - slang

noun:

• smalleye smooth-hound (Mustelus higmani, species of houndshark from the western Atlantic)

noun:

• Fowler's surgeonfish (Acanthurus fowleri, species of Western Pacific tang)

noun:

• bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo, species of hammerhead shark found in the Western Hemisphere)

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

noun:

• Japanese-made thing; Japanese goods; Japanese style thing

noun:

• plain form (of a Japanese verb or adjective); dictionary form; predicative form - Linguistics term

noun:

• happi coat (esp. one designed in a western style); happy coat ➜ 法被

noun:

• Japanese word of Chinese origin; Sino-Japanese word
• (ancient) Chinese language

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun:

• writing from top to bottom
• writing without a pause
• translation of classical Chinese into Japanese - abbreviation ➜ 書き下し文

noun:

• small tatami room
• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 放ち出
• room smaller than four and a half tatami (in tea ceremony)

noun:

• sheathing (under thatched roofing) - abbreviation
• lath (used as a foundation for a mud plaster wall)
• decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo) ➜ 桟竹

noun:

• game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs - archaism

noun:

• humorous mask of a homely woman's face (characterized by a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks)

noun:

• decorative ridge-end tile (traditionally bearing the face of a demon and resembling a gargoyle)
• hideous face - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• Galapagosization; widespread design of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom

noun:

• newspaper with a lot of advertisements and delivered for free of charge - From English "free paper"

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• keeping calm and collected at times of disappoinment; maintaining a serene state of mind in adversity - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term

godan ~く verb / yodan ~く verb (archaic):

• to brim over with feminine charm; to look captivating (of a woman); to be sexy; to be seductive; to be enticing
• to look young and fresh
• to be elegant; to look refined
• to have a calm and composed appearance

noun:

• geisha; Japanese singing and dancing girl

noun:

• classifier (in Japanese and Chinese linguistics) - Linguistics term