expression / pronoun:

• our company; my company

adverb:

• above all; especially; particularly; all the more

noun:

• American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)

noun:

• farewell party

noun:

• dividing line; parting (of the hair); partition; crisis

adjective:

• forgetful

noun:

• discount policy

noun:

• cotton gin; cotton ginning machine

lower nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to be worried; to be grieved - archaism ➜ 侘びる

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to blame oneself

noun:

• Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido ➜ 蝦夷地【えぞち】

adverb / ~と adverb:

• many people talking noisily - onomatopoeia
• chowing down; scarfing down - onomatopoeia
• roughly (of actions) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• straw boots

noun:

• "loser" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the least) - slang ➜ 割り勘勝ち

noun:

• cotton ginning

expression:

• impossible to do (although wants to)

noun:

• youth
• child (esp. of the young son of someone of high social standing)

prefix noun / suffix noun:

• young; new

noun:

• type of glue produced from bracken starch

expression / ichidan verb:

• to exceed; to be even more (so); to exaggerate

noun / ~する noun:

• over-sophistication

noun:

• straw doll; straw figure; straw effigy

noun:

• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

noun:

• brachiopod

expression:

• me too; I also

noun:

• war and peace; peace