noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing ➜ 書き損じ
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard) ➜ 書き損じ

noun:

• pumice stone
• loose rock; loose stone
• floating group (in the game of go); group without a base

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to read (a book); to open (a book) to read
• to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)

noun:

• the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period ➜ 南都六宗

expression:

• inability to discern the truth due to conflicting testimony (name derived the Akutagawa Ryūnosuke story "In A Grove")

adverb / ~と adverb:

• burbling - onomatopoeia
• hollow (sounding) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• holey; full of holes or dents; lumpy; bumpy

adjectival noun:

• viciously beating; hitting and kicking repeatedly ［ボコボコ・ぼこぼこ］ - colloquialism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• here and there ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia
• (sound of) walking slowly ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the ninth day of the month
• nine days

adverbial noun:

• the seventh day of the month
• seven days

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• on the way; en route
• in the middle of; midway

~の noun / noun:

• out of sight; in the background; unnoticed; under the veranda [literal] - idiom

noun:

• loyalty to the emperor and expulsion of the foreigners - four character idiom

noun:

• sashimi arranged in the original shape of the fish

noun:

• anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era - four character idiom

noun:

• geographic features; divination based on the lay of the land

noun:

• black tassel hung above the northwest corner of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• new futures on the first trading session of the month

noun:

• green tassel hung above the northeast corner of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• white tassel hung above the southwest corner of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• red tassel hung above the southeast corner of the ring - Sumo term

expression:

• in the early period (of something); at the beginning

noun:

• Vairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

expression:

• (at the) last moment; (in the) nick of time

noun:

• appreciation of the yen against the (American) dollar

noun:

• depreciation of the yen against the (American) dollar