noun:

• children's game in which the aim is to occupy the other's home base
• taking a place; securing a position

noun:

• first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old) ➜ 宮参り

noun:

• younger woman (usu. 20-30 years old) who is physically attracted to mature older men (usu. 50-60 years old) - from 枯れたおじいさん専門

noun:

• pad placed below the sheet on which a seal is to be pressed - used to make the seal's imprint clearer

noun:

• (crime of) incapacitated rape; crime of sexual assault against somebody who is intoxicated, asleep or otherwise unable to consent or resist - Law term

noun:

• bad bacteria (usu. intestinal bacteria that have an adverse affect on human health - E. choli, C. welchii, etc.); pathogenic bacteria; harmful bacteria

noun:

• concealed winning hand consisting of chows, a pair that isn't a value pair, and an open wait - Mahjong term - From Chinese

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect - abbreviation ➜ 放って置く

noun:

• as is; in (its) present state; in (its) present condition

noun:

• kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat

noun:

• deviation-value-oriented education; education focussed on test results; education that stresses studying and passing exams to raise one's ranking; academic cramming

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun / ~する noun:

• running away from home; elopement
• outing; going out - archaism
• becoming a Buddhist monk; entering the priesthood - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• sunburn; suntan; tan
• becoming discolored from the sun (e.g. paper); yellowing

noun:

• kombu (usu. Saccharina japonica); konbu; kelp; any edible species from the family Laminariaceae - From Ainu

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮

noun:

• type of crime which requires a formal complaint from the victim in order to prosecute - Law term

noun / ~の noun:

• establishing a large lead over one's competitors; breaking away (from the field)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 促音便

noun:

• banded houndshark (Triakis scyllium, found in the northwest Pacific from southern Siberia to Taiwan)

noun:

• body set on fire from head to foot (like a daruma doll being ritually incinerated)

noun:

• harlot pygmy goby (Trimma fucatum, fish species from Thailand)

noun:

• Tomini surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus tominiensis, species of bristletooth tang from the Western Central Pacific)

noun:

• Monrovia doctorfish (Acanthurus monroviae, species of Eastern Atlantic tang found from southern Morocco to Angola)

noun:

• ninespine batfish (Zabidius novemaculeatus, species of Indo-Pacific spadefish found from Indonesia to northwestern Australia)