noun:

• total work of art; complete work of art; Gesamtkunstwerk; artwork that integrates music, poetry, and acting; composite art

noun:

• substitute national holiday; day off in lieu of a national holiday that falls on a Sunday; compensatory holiday - abbreviation ➜ 振替休日【ふりかえきゅうじつ】

noun:

• Asura; demigod; anti-god; titan; demigods that fight the Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 阿修羅
• fighting; carnage; conflict; strife
• sledge (for conveying large rocks, logs, etc.)
• log slide; chute; flume ➜ 滑道

noun / ~する noun:

• covering private parts (esp. actors during filming)

noun:

• minimal bikini bottom (held only by tiny straps or adhesive tape)
• lined hakama that bulge in the front ［前張り・前張］

noun:

• scoring hand in hanafuda with one 20 point flower card and six 1 point flower cards ➜ 花札
• something (or someone) that stands out above the rest

noun:

• aftercare; care for patients after discharge from hospital - Medicine term
• after-sales service - From English "after care" ➜ アフターサービス

noun / ~する noun:

• going from door to door greeting relatives and friends
• complimentary visit for the New Year

noun / adjectival noun:

• practice of mixing things normally kept separate; mixture

noun:

• dish of noodles, seafood, vegetables (from Nagasaki)

noun / ~の noun:

• aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature

noun:

• dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)

noun:

• match-up between wrestlers from different divisions who will probably 'switch' divisions in new ranking - Sumo term

noun / ~の noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son - four character idiom

noun:

• in calligraphy, a stroke going from upper right to lower left with a pointed tail

noun:

• man only used to receive meals from; man who always pays for food - slang ➜ ミツグ君

expression:

• (with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force - idiom

noun:

• chronixis surgeonfish (Acanthurus chronixis, Western-Pacific species of tang from Kapingamarangi in the Caroline Islands)

noun:

• horn shark (Heterodontus francisci, a bullhead shark from the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• western wobbegon (Orectolobus hutchinsi, species of carpet shark from Western Australia)

noun:

• West African spadefish (Chaetodipterus lippei, species of Eastern Atlantic spadefish found from Senegal to Angola)

noun:

• hairstyle for men and women from early Edo era to the Genroku era

noun:

• ceremonial removal of the coffin from the house (lay person) or temple (priest) (Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term

noun:

• honeycomb toffee; sponge toffee; foam candy from heated brown sugar mixed with baking soda - abbreviation ➜ カルメラ・軽目焼

noun:

• multiple people holding the same item with their chopsticks
• passing something from chopstick to chopstick

noun:

• compound ideograph formation (one of the six kanji classifications); making kanji up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain) ➜ 会意文字

noun:

• lost work; lost writings
• partially lost work; literary fragment; work that survives through quotations
• work of a superior quality