noun:

• painful reproach (like a needle stuck in one's scalp)

expression:

• people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season); it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of - obscure term

noun:

• Dodompa (a rumba-like Japanese musical genre popular in the 1960s)

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

noun:

• Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

noun:

• pika (rabbit-like animal of family Ochotonidae) ➜ 啼兎

noun:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs)

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

noun:

• clay face (made like a mask or as a decoration)

noun:

• cyclostomes (eel-like jawless fishes with round mouths used for sucking) ➜ 無顎類

noun:

• sound of wind rustling in the pine needles (like waves)

noun:

• digitally altered photograph (e.g. made to look like an oil painting)

noun:

• correct style in a haiku (like Basho's)

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• vigor (like leaping flames); liveliness

noun:

• the teachings of Buddha (as likened to the Dharmachakra, originally a wheel-like weapon used to destroy the evils of mankind); Buddhist doctrine - Buddhism term ➜ 輪宝・転法輪

noun:

• cap cloud (cloud shaped like an Asian bamboo hat that forms at the peak of a tall mountain)

auxiliary:

• word used at sentence-end (like a particle) to indicate speculation, volition or invitation - Kantō, Tōhoku dialect ➜ 可い

suffix:

• familiar suffix used after a personal name ［ぺ］

noun:

• nephew (like a son); another child considered as one's own

noun:

• user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously); namefag - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル

noun:

• wide leg gaucho pants (that look like a skirt) - from skircho - colloquialism ➜ スカート・ガウチョパンツ

auxiliary:

• word used at sentence-end (like a particle) to indicate speculation, volition or invitation - archaism - Kantō, Tōhoku dialect
• should; must ➜ 可き

expression:

• something indistinguishable or indistinct (like an egret in the snow) - obscure term

noun:

• online handle (esp. on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously); screen name; user name - colloquialism
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously) - colloquialism

noun:

• comb jelly (any jellyfish-like animal of the phylum Ctenophora) ➜ 有櫛動物

noun:

• hu (ancient Chinese vessel shaped like a vase, usually used to store alcohol)