noun:

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

noun:

• "benefit-your-locality" tax scheme; system in which taxpayers can choose to divert part of their residential tax to a specified local government

noun:

• selling separately; not included in the price

noun:

• (incense) pastille; round cake of incense, esp. used in incense ceremony ➜ 香道

~の noun / noun / ~する noun:

• pre-made (esp. food); prepared in advance

noun:

• naturally growing tree; tree that does not grow in a tree plantation

adjective:

• somewhat lacking; somewhat weak in the head

godan ~す verb:

• to rekindle one's love; to fall in love again (with a person one has previously been in love with) ➜ 直す

noun:

• myodesopsia; seeing floaters in one's eye - Medicine term

noun:

• spirit of a true artisan; (a craftsman's) pride in one's work - four character idiom

expression:

• person who is ignorant of the real world; frog in a well [literal]

noun:

• Chongqing government; Kuomintang government based in Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War

noun:

• library arrangement; organization of books in a library

noun:

• Heijo Palace; Imperial palace in ancient Nara ➜ 平城京

noun:

• risk money; money invested in high-risk, high-return, investments

noun:

• Coris; genus of wrasses in the family Labridae

noun:

• shift away from rice consumption; consumers losing interest in eating rice

expression / noun:

• women who excel; women in prominent positions

expression:

• jokingly; in the form of a joke

noun:

• clashing waves; tides in narrow sea straits - archaism

conjunction:

• if so; if it be so; in that case; then ➜ 然らば【さらば】

noun:

• dependent word; auxiliaries and particles in Japanese - Linguistics term

noun:

• Auchenipterus; genus of catfishes in the family Auchenipteridae

adverb:

• piled up high; in a heap ➜ 堆い

noun:

• firelight; shadows or forms moving in firelight