noun:

• main menu in a restaurant, as opposed to the lunchtime menu

noun / ~する noun:

• going along with something; following the crowd
• treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner

noun:

• Far Eastern brook lamprey (Lethenteron reissneri); sand lamprey (species found in the Northwest Pacific)

noun:

• water poisoning (in traditional Chinese medicine, illnesses caused by excessive water accumulation within the body)

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• marriage in which a man is adopted into the bride's family; uxorilocal marriage ➜ 婿入

expression:

• capable or not, we are all in the same boat; bats are also birds [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Murakumo no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia) - obscure term ➜ 天叢雲剣

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be quiet (due to lack of activity); to be in a slump (of a business) - idiom ➜ 閑古鳥

noun:

• nursery school sleepover; one night sleepover at school in summer vacation of last year of nursery school

noun:

• deepest level (of an art, skill, etc.); secret teachings; mysteries; innermost secrets; the secret (of success, etc.)

noun:

• 10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November); late autumn; late fall ➜ 小春日和

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen [literal] - proverb ➜ 一円を笑う者は一円に泣く・一銭

noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

noun:

• left skirt of a kimono
• geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono) ➜ 芸妓

noun:

• morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

noun:

• dyeing of degummed silk; dyeing of raw silk at the same time as degumming

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one yen will cry at one yen [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one
• to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor - orig. meaning

adverb:

• not in the least; not at all; not a bit - before a negative

noun:

• unhulled rice; rice in the husk; paddy
• rice husks; chaff - abbreviation ➜ 籾殻

noun:

• salmon (esp. salmon swimming upstream in the autumn)
• salted salmon ➜ 塩鮭

noun:

• period play (esp. set in the Edo period); period drama ➜ 丁髷

noun:

• period play (esp. set in the Edo period); period drama ➜ 丁髷

suffix / godan ~く verb:

• to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...

godan ~く verb:

• to jerk off; to masturbate - vulgar - colloquialism