noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

counter:

• indicates position in a sequence ➜ 目【め】

noun:

• divisions of a kabuki performance

noun / ~する noun:

• nomination (of a person to a position); selection; election; assignment; appointment

noun / ~する noun:

• coming alongside a pier, quay, etc.; reaching land (of a boat)

noun:

• leopon (offspring born of a male leopard and a female lion)

noun:

• family of Shinto priests serving a shrine on a hereditary basis

noun:

• range (of a gun)
• distance travelled by a bullet (shell, etc.)

interjection:

• oof (i.e. a grunt of effort)

adverb:

• a lot; plenty ➜ うんと

noun:

• one field; a division; a branch (e.g. of study, etc.)

noun:

• hook (high point of a song)
• (at a sushi shop) wasabi ［さび］ - abbreviation ➜ 山葵

noun:

• tigon (offspring of a male tiger and a female lion); tiglon ➜ ライガー

expression:

• being a guest for too long (e.g. of a neighbor)

noun / ~する noun:

• isolation (e.g. of a particular chemical substance within a mixture)

noun / ~の noun:

• (at a rate of) once a month

noun:

• 10 percent monthly interest

expression:

• being a spectator; observing (out of curiosity) as a disinterested party

noun / ~する noun:

• incorporation; conversion to a corporation; privatization (of a previously public body)

noun:

• priority seat; courtesy seat; seat provided in trains, buses, etc. for the use of the disabled, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.

expression:

• (bringing up a child) with greatest care pampering (him, her) with material comforts of a rich family; (being brought up) in a hothouse atmosphere - four character idiom

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• hair at the temples; hair at the sides of the head

noun:

• term used in translation; translation equivalent
• word borrowed and translated from another language

expression:

• thank you for the meal; that was a delicious meal; what a wonderful meal

noun:

• tenth sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Bird, 5pm-7pm, west, August)

noun:

• seventh sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Horse, 11am-1pm, south, May)