noun:

• loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce

noun:

• relationship; connection; involvement; entanglement; implication (e.g. in a crime)

noun:

• marks to aid in reading Chinese classics

noun:

• summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season ➜ 暑中見舞

noun:

• excellent-good-poor; first-second-third (class)
• (in) three volumes (a literary work)

noun:

• dripping; drop; trickle
• water trickling from moss, rocks, or cliffs in the summer

noun:

• night-soil vault; clay pot used to collect feces in an outhouse ➜ 汲み取り便所・壷【つぼ】・便槽

noun:

• observer; spectator (e.g. in court); (member of the) public; visitor; audience; gallery

noun:

• study of plants, minerals, and animals for use in Chinese medicine; herbalism; pharmacognosy

adverb / noun:

• finally; in the end; on top of all that

noun:

• interference with a public servant in the execution of his or her duties

noun / ~する noun:

• committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train

noun:

• portable painting used as part of the backdrop (in kabuki, etc.)

noun:

• (historic) a temple in which women seeking release from marriage could take refuge

adverb:

• bound hand and foot; hedged in (e.g. by restrictions); immobile

noun:

• stool (stood on to reach high objects)
• stock (in grafting)

noun:

• heated stone (wrapped in cloth and kept next to the body for warmth)

noun:

• ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 如是我聞
• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - abbreviation ➜ 十如是

noun:

• Asama-Sanso incident (famous hostage crisis and police siege in Feb. 1972)

noun:

• trehalose (used in foods as a sweetener, stabilizer and flavor enhancer) (stabiliser) (flavour)

noun:

• referee officiating at bouts of rank-and-file wrestlers in the highest division - Sumo term

noun:

• very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division - Sumo term ➜ 付出し

noun:

• economy class syndrome (occurrence of deep vein thrombosis in air travelers) ➜ 深部静脈血栓症【しんぶじょうみゃくけっせんしょう】

noun:

• sprouting; budding

noun / interjection:

• crush (esp. on an imaginary character in manga, etc.); fascination; infatuation - also written 萌ゑ - slang

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom