noun / ~する noun:

• pitching in consecutive games - Baseball term
• making multiple posts (on a website); posting multiple comments

noun:

• clear broth soup, with ingredients and garnish floating in and on it

noun / ~する noun:

• firmly bear in mind; have something engraved on one's mind (heart) - four character idiom

interjection:

• yes; yeah; uh huh ➜ うん
• huh?; what?

auxiliary verb / suffix:

• not - negative verb ending used in informal speech; abbr. of negative verb ending ぬ ➜ ぬ

particle:

• 's - abbr. of particle の; indicates possessive ➜ の・の
• at (place, time); in; on; during - abbr. of particle に, used esp. when it precedes the verb なる ➜ に

noun:

• Kanda Festival (held at Kanda Myoujin Shrine in Tokyo on May 15)

noun:

• accent (in French; acute, grave, and circumflex) - From French
• accent (on a syllable, word); stress ➜ アクセント

noun / ~する noun:

• bogging down; dragging on; turning into a quagmire; becoming mired in a mess

noun:

• woman peddler in Kyoto from Ohara (typically with a bundle of sticks, etc. on her head)

expression:

• to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one - proverb

noun:

• monkey booze; sake-like liquid produced by the fermentation of fruits left by monkeys in tree caches or hollows in rocks

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to enjoy oneself to one's hearts content; to enjoy oneself to the full

yodan ~く verb (archaic):

• to hang oneself; to strangle oneself - archaism
• to wring the neck; to strangle - archaism

noun:

• humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

noun:

• flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image - Buddhism term

noun:

• Cetorhinus (sole genus of the only species of basking shark in the family Cetorhinidae)

expression:

• mountain in springtime when all of the tree buds open at the same time; laughing mountain [literal] - poetical term

noun:

• tachibana tree west of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace) ➜ 紫宸殿・左近の桜

noun:

• cherry tree east of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace) ➜ 右近の橘・紫宸殿

noun:

• idol (esp. in the philosophy of Francis Bacon: idols of the tribe, cave, market, and theater) - From Latin "idola"

noun:

• triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

noun:

• amateur work (in art); work done in carefree mood without regard to time or expenses - four character idiom

noun:

• Mikawa manzai; style of manzai originating in the Mikawa region in Aichi prefecture ➜ 万歳【まんざい】

noun:

• standard practice; playing by the book; established tactic; formula
• joseki (in go); standard sequence (esp. in a corner); standard move

noun / ~する noun:

• reduction in the number of vehicles, carriages, etc.; reduction in vehicle runs (bus, taxi, etc.) ➜ 増車