noun:

• dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi ➜ 蜜柑

noun:

• dorayaki; dessert sandwich of two small sweet pancakes and red bean paste - Food term ➜ 餡こ【あんこ】

noun:

• Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions ➜ カメコ

noun:

• 1932 Theses; Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems

noun:

• rectangular bugaku mask made of thick paper and white silk with facial features drawn on it ➜ 舞楽

noun:

• all terminals; winning hand consisting of only ones and nines as pungs or kongs plus a pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

noun:

• middle point; median point ［ちゅうてん］
• middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)

expression:

• when the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off; when the nimble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked [literal]

noun / adverbial noun:

• utmost limits; to the finish; to the (bitter) end; to the hilt; down to the bedrock - four character idiom

expression:

• the clothes do not make the man; the cowl does not make the monk - proverb

expression:

• the busier you are, the better you work - proverb
• the more, the better - proverb

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case
• to scold; to take (a person) to task

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be hit; to strike Antonym: 外す
• to touch; to be in contact; to be affixed
• to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to apply to
• to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)
• to be selected (in a lottery, etc.); to win
• to be successful; to go well; to be a hit
• to face; to confront
• to lie (in the direction of)
• to undertake; to be assigned
• to be stricken (by food poisoning, heat, etc.); to be afflicted
• to be called upon (by the teacher)
• to treat (esp. harshly); to lash out at
• to be unnecessary - as 〜するには当たらない, etc.
• to be hitting well; to be on a hitting streak - usu. as 当たっている - Baseball term
• (in fishing) to feel a bite
• (of fruit, etc.) to be bruised; to spoil

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to feel (something) out; to probe into; to check (i.e. by comparison)
• to shave
• to be a relative of a person; to stand in a relationship - as 〜の〜に当たる

noun:

• sunken kotatsu; low table over a hole in the floor (may have a heat source underneath and a hanging quilt to retain warmth) ➜ 炬燵

noun / ~する noun:

• close examination; careful selection; testing; scrutiny
• examination of criminal charges
• reciting and appreciating traditional poetry - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• star (esp. television); personality - From English "talent"
• talent; skill
• talent; unit of currency in ancient Greece and Israel ➜ タラント

noun:

• administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures

noun:

• binding hand and foot; temporary feeling of paralysis; sleep paralysis
• being tied down with money - colloquialism

noun:

• multi-tenant building; building containing a mixture of businesses, shops and residential apartments

noun / ~する noun:

• enduring something out of pride; putting up with it; grinning and bearing it

adjectival noun:

• explosive
• sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid; abrupt; tremendous

godan ~す verb:

• to gnaw at and scatter around; to start a lot of things without finishing any

noun:

• training partner
• training hall (esp. one made of wooden planks and used for dancing practice)