noun:

• mud wall with a roof; roofed mud wall ➜ 築地【ついじ】

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun:

• a printer's; a printer

noun:

• bridge of a koto

noun / ~する noun:

• responding to a demand; answering a request

noun:

• 1st course at a banquet

noun:

• rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)

expression:

• a few minutes; for a few minutes; for a number of minutes; for a period of a few minutes; for several minutes

godan ~る verb:

• to take a picture with a Cheki camera - slang ➜ チェキ

noun:

• cafe a la creme - From French

adverb:

• with a thud - onomatopoeia ➜ ドサ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to send a messenger

noun:

• part of end phrase in a letter

noun:

• a new product joining a group of other products

noun:

• staffing a retail outlet with one person - From English "one operation"

noun / ~する noun:

• burying a dead person's personal belongings with the body

noun:

• ceremonial assembling of a ship's crew on deck

expression:

• without saying a word

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a turn; developing into

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fill a bottle

noun:

• start of a season (e.g. soccer) - From English "season in"

noun:

• staffing a retail outlet with one person - abbreviation ➜ ワンオペレーション

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり

noun:

• having the face of a devil and the heart of Buddha; having a stern face but a tender heart - four character idiom

noun:

• young people who behave in a rowdy fashion (e.g. in a pub); young people who cheer and drink loudly