noun:

• oshizushi; sushi rice and other ingredients pressed in box or mould (mold) - Food term ➜ 押し鮨【おしずし】

noun:

• Bhaishajyaguru triad; image of Bhaishajyaguru Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Suryaprabha and Candraprabha - Buddhism term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to go through several printings; to run into several editions

noun:

• Japanese chimera; mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and a snake tail
• White's thrush (Zoothera dauma) ➜ 虎鶫
• man of mystery; enigma

noun:

• conjugal harmony; concord between husband and wife

noun:

• Lagomorpha; order comprising the rabbits, hares and pikas

noun:

• sushi rice; rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar and salt - Food term ➜ 寿司飯【すしめし】・舎利【しゃり】

noun:

• hourglass economy; economy having large upper and lower classes and a small middle class

noun:

• Hominoidea; superfamily of apes and humans

expression / noun:

• the three Rs; reading, writing and arithmetic

noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

noun:

• thirteen orphans; winning hand containing one of each terminal and honor tile - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 国士無双

expression:

• the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long; the well with sweet water will be the first to run dry [literal] - proverb

expression:

• having exhausted every available means; having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows [literal]

noun:

• Columbiformes; order of birds comprising pigeons and doves

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to rain heavily; to be raining cats and dougs - idiom

noun:

• the whole creation; everything in heaven and earth - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• coming together; gathering and coming

adverb / ~と adverb:

• rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily - onomatopoeia

noun / suffix noun:

• north of; and northward

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of tomorrow and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• execution time; run time - IT term

noun:

• semi suite; large hotel room with separate sleeping and living room areas

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• semi-sweet

noun:

• collation; examining and comparing ➜ 校合

noun:

• pasha; honorary title in Ottoman Empire and pre-republican Egypt - From Turkish "paşa"

~と adverb / adverb:

• click; sound of a camera shutter - onomatopoeia ➜ パシャッと