noun:

• dessert (esp. in Italian cuisine); sweets; cake - From Italian "dolce"

adverb:

• dolce; (to be performed) gently and sweetly - Music term - From Italian

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• outspoken; arguing (heatedly) what one believes in; insisting on something without restraint - four character idiom

noun:

• snail's pace tactics; walking slowly when voting in the Diet to delay proceedings - four character idiom

noun:

• giving lessons at pupils' homes
• going to train in stable other than your own - Sumo term

noun:

• mid-sized konoshiro gizzard shad (i.e. about 15 cm in size) ➜ 鮗

expression / adjective:

• in conflict; incompatible; out of harmony; running counter; mutually exclusive; clashing with

noun:

• salvation by faith in Amitabha - four character idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 阿弥陀
• relying upon others for attaining one's own objective - four character idiom

noun:

• palmyra - abbreviation ➜ 多羅樹
• lusterleaf holly - abbreviation ➜ 多羅葉
• patra (silver incense dish placed in front of a Buddhist statue)

noun:

• palsy; paralysis
• every second solar term (occurring in the latter half of each month) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom

noun:

• old maid (card game)
• living without one's mother-in-law - slang

noun:

• loach stew; loaches boiled in soy sauce with stewed eggs and slivered burdock root - Food term ➜ 泥鰌

noun:

• gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater) ➜ 義太夫

noun / ~する noun:

• persuading by heavy-handed methods
• (in aesthetics) refinement; purification; elimination of non-essential elements

noun:

• fish sliced open, seasoned with mirin, soy sauce, etc. and dried in the sun

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

noun:

• oshizushi; sushi rice and other ingredients pressed in box or mould (mold) - Food term

noun:

• water-filled bamboo tube in Japanese garden which clacks against a stone when emptied

noun:

• kakekotoba; pivot word; play on words (esp. in poetry); pun

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean) - derogatory term

noun:

• plastic tunnel crop cultivation; growing crops in long barrel-roofed vinyl greenhouses

noun:

• rematch (e.g. in sumo when the match is too close to decide)

noun:

• banners of thanks for the full house (in sumo tournaments, soccer matches, concerts, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom