noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Ōoka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)

noun:

• Okinawan-style stewed pork cubes; boned pork rib meat, cut into 5 cm squares, stewed in awamori, soy, dashi broth, and sugar - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

noun:

• five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner

noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

noun:

• Kyoto-Shiga; Kyoto and Shiga

noun:

• Japan-Thailand; Japan and Thailand

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to wait for a long time; to wait and wait; to eagerly await

noun:

• older brother; elder brother - honorific language ➜ お兄さん
• brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship)
• young man; buddy; fella; laddie - vocative

noun:

• finishing reading

noun / ~の noun:

• non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence) ➜ 句読

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes
• to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan

interjection:

• yes ➜ はい

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the sea of Japan

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan ➜ あゆの風【あゆのかぜ】

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan ➜ あいの風

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan ➜ あいの風

noun:

• value honor; round wind, seat wind, and dragon tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 圏風牌・門風牌・三元牌
• winning hand containing one kong (or pung) of a value honor - Mahjong term ➜ 役【やく】

noun:

• area of a soccer pitch between the penalty area and the centre ring (of tactical importance) - Sports term - From English "vital area"

noun:

• barker; tout; hawker; someone who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events, shops, bars, and such, by exhorting passing public

~する noun:

• calling out to potential customers

noun:

• blue film; early (1950s-) type of hardcore pornographic film usually filmed on 8 or 16mm film and often in black market circulation

noun / ~する noun:

• setting oneself free from the life of a white-collar worker; quitting a job as a salaryman and launching an independent business ➜ サラ

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (bound victim sits cross-legged with their arms tied behind them, and the rope is tightened until their ankles touch their neck)

noun:

• little four winds; winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• dandy; peacock; early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza; Edo-period eccentric who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and weird behavior - four character idiom