noun:

• playing shogi with a handicap of the rook and bishop
• participating in a contest while missing key players, pieces, etc.

noun:

• semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

noun:

• stopping place for horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws (Edo period); high way resting place
• wholesale rag dealer

noun:

• race; tribe; ethnic group
• species; genus; family
• stellar population (i.e. population I, II and III) - Astronomy term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way
• to press and cut

noun:

• beginning and end; from beginning to end
• result; outcome; course of events

noun / ~する noun:

• dealing with something successfully

noun / ~する noun:

• one's daily life

noun:

• condition; well-being; state of one's health
• standing and sitting; movements - orig. meaning

noun:

• ko-on; ancient reading; reading of a kanji based on Zhou, Han and Wei dynasty Chinese

noun:

• rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar and salt, used for preparing sushi; sushi rice - Food term

adverb:

• for a long time; since long ago; from childhood
• bright and early; early in the morning

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross)

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross) ➜ 赤菱

noun:

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations, 1948)

expression:

• dignified without being overbearing; being dignified, and moreover warm, as such one is gentle ➜ 威有って猛からず【いあってたけからず】

noun / ~する noun:

• lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name; collective name; generic term ➜ 総称

noun:

• savannah monkey (the vervet monkey, green monkey and grivet monkey taken collectively as one species, Cercopithecus aethiops)

expression:

• Come away home! (expression suggesting quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown) - archaism ➜ 帰去来

noun:

• changing one's attitude or conduct and making a new start; turning over a new leaf

noun:

• K-T boundary (between the Cretaceous Period and the Tertiary Period)

noun:

• heloderm (any venomous lizard of genus Heloderma, incl. the gila monster and the beaded lizard)

noun:

• Hydrolagus barbouri (species of cartilaginous fish found in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea)

noun:

• Kyoto's children ➜ 京童
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext ➜ 京童

noun:

• Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• textbook approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; government-approved textbook

noun:

• variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region)