noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いきじめ］ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan

noun:

• wooden horse; rocking horse
• vaulting horse; horse used in gymnastics ➜ 跳馬
• the horse (ancient torture device that one was forced to straddle with rocks hanging from the feet)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to sow; to plant; to seed
• to sprinkle (gold or silver powder on lacquerware) ➜ 蒔絵

noun:

• field of vision; view
• one's outlook (e.g. on life); one's horizons

noun:

• written language; literary language
• formal (or archaic) written style based on Heian-period Japanese

noun / ~する noun:

• attaching too much importance to; placing disproportionate emphasis on; making too much of

noun:

• bring-your-own (e.g. food and drink); carry-on (e.g. luggage)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to go on a pub-crawl; to drink at a round of places

noun:

• buzzword; vogue word; popular phrase; word (phrase) in fashion or on everybody's lips

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to instigate; to incite; to spur on; to set (e.g. a dog after someone)

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to ration out and survive on (some food)
• to eke out a living

noun:

• Japanese inn priding itself on its cuisine; Japanese-style restaurant with an attached inn

noun:

• imperialisation policy (esp. on Korea during Japan's colonial rule) (imperialization); policy of imperialisation

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to sit at a desk (to study); to set to work on revision, homework, etc.

noun:

• business based on anime and manga characters; character-based business - From English "character business"

noun:

• written investigation; report of an investigation
• school record (on a student); transcript (of grades)

noun:

• young female TV announcer (who also frequently functions as a television talent doing on-location fluff pieces for variety shows) - abbreviation ➜ アナウンサー

noun / ~する noun:

• squatting (usu. with elbows on knees and often while smoking, typically considered a low-class posture)

expression:

• teaching your grandmother to suck eggs; teaching something to someone who knows more than you; preaching to the choir; lecturing to the Buddha [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• circumvention of the law; evasion of the law (by using legal means to obtain a result normally only obtainable by illegal ones)

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

noun:

• room behind the curtain of a noh stage, where the actors prepare; greenroom (noh); mirror room [literal]
• hall of mirrors (at Versailles)

expression:

• even the unskilled can succeed by a fluke given enough tries; even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots [literal] - proverb ➜ 下手な鉄砲も数撃てば当たる

noun:

• reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler) ➜ 小葦切・大葦切