noun:

• office system where employees are free to change desk - From English "free address"

noun:

• robe with a round collar, stitched sides and a ran, worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials ➜ 襴

noun:

• bagua mirror (mirror used in divination in fengshui); pa kua mirror

noun:

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

noun:

• Yin Dynasty (of China)

noun:

• broiled eel served over rice in a lacquered box; broiled eel and rice served in two separate stacked boxes, with eel in top box and rice in bottom box

noun:

• departure; setting off; start
• being used up; being consumed; being burnt out
• passage of time; lapse
• rehearsal - abbreviation ➜ 立ち稽古【たちげいこ】
• leading male role in kabuki - abbreviation ➜ 立ち役【たちやく】
• rising from a crouch to charge; initial charge; faceoff - abbreviation - Sumo term ➜ 立会い【たちあい】

prefix:

• verb prefix conveying emphasis and sometimes formality

noun:

• (warning) flare (esp. used on roads and railways)

noun:

• Rikuentai; anti-shogunate army formed in Kyoto in 1867 by Nakaoka Shintaro

noun:

• flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness
• animal from popular folklore with a white fluffy down made from dandelions and a rabbit's tail resembling a fluffy hairball

noun:

• new moon - Astronomy term
• first day of the lunar month
• (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• tears or flower petals falling quietly - onomatopoeia ➜ はらはら・ぼろぼろ
• gurgling bird sound - onomatopoeia
• falling apart; crumbling; melting (in one's mouth) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc. - Food term

noun:

• Alan Smithee (pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project); Allen Smithee

noun:

• Japanese language
• native Japanese words (esp. not Chinese and other foreign loanwords)

noun:

• three noble families (Kan'in, Kazan'in, and Nakanoin or Koga)
• three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito) ➜ 御三家

noun / ~する noun:

• yell used to time or encourage activity (e.g. "Heave ho!", "On three ... One, two, three!" in English); enthusiastic shout from the audience (e.g. in kabuki); shouting (in concerts)

noun / ~する noun:

• hailing each other
• acting in concert; responding (to); sympathizing (with)
• agreement; concord - Linguistics term

noun:

• coordinated group gymnastics (in which teams form pyramids or other shapes)

noun:

• attacking each other; capturing race (e.g. in go); mutual attack

noun:

• friends who sleep next to each other (without engaging in sexual activities) - abbreviation ➜ 添い寝フレンド

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to keep in mind and do as one has been told; to learn and obey; to act in accordance; to comply

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; other people's flowers are redder [literal] - proverb

noun:

• painting of flowers and birds; bird-and-flower genre in Chinese and Japanese painting

noun:

• one's fellow workers; fellow employees

expression / adverb:

• if by any chance; just in case; in the worst case; in the unlikely event that; 10000 to 1 [literal]