noun:

• rice boiled in tea (and) flavored with sake and shoyu (flavoured)

noun:

• in calligraphy, the four important tools of brush, ink stone, ink stick, and paper - four character idiom

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇汁

noun:

• standard tables of food composition in Japan - abbreviation ➜ 日本食品標準成分表

noun:

• a drop in the ocean (bucket) - four character idiom

noun:

• secret language used in the postwar Showa period where certain words are read backwards - from ジャズ read backwards - Linguistics term

noun:

• burning grass in spring (to kill insects)

noun:

• torture in which the victim is whipped with arrow shafts

noun / adjectival noun:

• knowing how to get on in the world; knowing the secret of success in life - four character idiom

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 企業短期経済観測調査【きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ】

noun:

• Gender Equality In Employment Act

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• (sound) lingering in the air; trailing notes (of a bell, etc.) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• person in charge of preparing food for rikishi (usually performed by low-ranking rikishi) - Sumo term

godan ~く verb:

• to listen in; to eavesdrop

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・ピー柿

noun:

• Tokyo and Nagoya

noun:

• game in which one makes a big snowball by rolling it around in the snow

noun:

• member of a (school) club who does not partake in the club's activities - humorous term ➜ 帰宅部

noun:

• makizushi comprising mackerel fillet marinated in salt and vinegar, wrapped in rice and covered in shredded kombu - Food term

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Postal Services Privatization

noun:

• vegetables cooked in oil; fried vegetables

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit) - abbreviation ➜ 身八つ口

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to nip (something) in the bud

noun:

• division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine; spirit divided in such a manner