noun:

• old evils; evils committed in a previous existence - Buddhism term

noun:

• loach stew; loaches boiled in soy sauce with stewed eggs and slivered burdock root - Food term ➜ 泥鰌

noun / ~の noun:

• French (made); made in France

noun:

• Canthigaster; genus of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae

noun:

• juvenile delinquent under the age of fourteen; minor in trouble with the law

noun:

• shinkansen pear; hybrid nashi developed in Tottori prefecture

noun / ~の noun:

• canalphones; in-ear headphones ➜ 外耳道

noun:

• garden soil; soil used in a garden

noun:

• monkey booze; sake-like liquid produced by the fermentation of fruits left by monkeys in tree caches or hollows in rocks

expression:

• you can make friends anywhere; (you can make) acquaintances even in hell [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (hot) stove league; trading of players in the off-season - Baseball term

expression / adjective:

• be inextricably involved; be in a sticky situation ➜ 抜き差しならぬ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly); to imply something in a roundabout way - idiom

noun:

• kana literature; works written in kana in the Heian period - four character idiom

expression:

• openly and secretly; helping in all ways - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• (allowing for) population increase; rise in population

noun:

• Chimaera; genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Chimaeridae

noun / ~する noun:

• blood pledge; oath signed in blood

expression:

• spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age - proverb

noun:

• compared to our company's products (a phrase often used in advertising when comparing old and new products); in this company's comparison
• as I see it; by my estimate - colloquialism

noun:

• Koya paper; Japanese paper produced in the vicinity of Mt. Koya ➜ 和紙

noun:

• Shinsengumi; shogunate police and military force located in Kyoto and dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities (Edo period)

noun:

• university of foreign studies; university specializing in foreign languages

noun:

• blessing of earth; winning with a self-drawn tile in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• abbreviated koyomi (Japanese traditional calendar); koyomi presented in a smaller, easy to use, format - abbreviation ➜ 略本暦