noun:

• the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China - Buddhism term

noun:

• bowl of shaved ice with boiled adzuki beans

noun:

• expansion of domestic demand

noun / ~する noun:

• lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind ➜ ど忘れ

noun:

• first wholesale produce market of the year (usu. auction of seafood, fruit, etc.)

noun:

• mixture of mayonnaise and canned tuna, used on bread, pasta, etc. - abbreviation ➜ ツナマヨネーズ

noun:

• mochi used for the celebration of a child's fiftieth day ➜ 五十日の祝

noun:

• seat of honor; seat of honour

expression:

• just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth ➜ 番茶も出花

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be possessed by an evil spirit; to be tempted; to give in to an urge; to succumb to temptation

noun:

• soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)

noun:

• hiring a number of geisha for an entertainment

noun:

• room connecting the two main rooms of a building; intermediate room

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be the mother of someone's child

noun / ~する noun:

• die of old age

noun:

• (in P2P networks) a program that monitors (and adjusts) activity of a P2P program - colloquialism - IT term ➜ モニター

noun:

• thirteenth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• testimony of a witness

noun:

• method of payment

noun:

• quality of a product ➜ 品柄
• feel of goods (taste, style)

noun:

• appearance of ears of grain

noun:

• individual (different) ways of doing things; being different (varied) for each item (type) - four character idiom

noun:

• the principle of honorable death and no surrender - four character idiom

noun:

• taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

expression:

• one of them