noun:

• hunt (where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters)

noun:

• seeds
• producer-driven solutions; ideas, products, services, etc. proposed by a company to consumers

noun:

• small high-pitched Japanese drum or taiko with its head pulled taut by ropes ➜ 太鼓

noun:

• requesting the testimony of an unsworn witness (who is not bound by perjury law)

noun:

• holiday traffic congestion caused by people travelling to their hometowns en masse

noun:

• grand purification ceremony (so-called because it was overseen by the Nakatomi family) - archaism ➜ 大祓

noun:

• erection of a pillar by sinking it directly into the ground

noun:

• geisha; woman who entertains (e.g. by playing the shamisen) for her living - obscure term ➜ 歌妓

noun:

• double-lined fusilier (Pterocaesio digramma)
• Taiwan (nickname)
• Takasago (classic noh play by Zeami)

noun:

• sake lees with black or brown specks (from oxidation enzymes produced by the yeast) ➜ 酒かす

noun:

• fashion not created by designers but based on street styles - From English "anonymous fashion"

noun:

• PRISM; mass electronic surveillance program operated by the United States National Security Agency

noun / ~する noun:

• imitation of a professional singer, musician, dancer, etc. usu. by an amateur - slang - abbreviation ➜ 完全コピー

adverb:

• in a line; in a row - onomatopoeia

~する noun / ~の noun:

• to contact; to get in touch ➜ ご連絡

noun:

• contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message ➜ ご連絡
• connection; coordination; junction

~の noun:

• intercalary; intercalaris; internuncial

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to say in a round-about way (not to upset); to cushion the blow; to wrap in wafer paper [literal] - idiom

noun:

• in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

noun:

• (in Japan) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G) ➜ 十二律・仲呂
• (in gagaku) scale similar to Mixolydian mode on G ➜ 呂旋・六調子

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

adverb:

• why?; what for?
• how?; by what means?

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be taught (by); to learn from

godan ~る verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to happen to pass by

noun:

• work; book

suffix:

• (a book) by

adjectival noun / noun:

• obvious; striking

noun / ~する noun:

• regrettable defeat; defeat by a narrow margin

adverb / ~の noun:

• gradually; slowly; little by little; incrementally