noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun:

• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

adverb:

• bound hand and foot; hedged in (e.g. by restrictions); immobile

noun:

• heated stone (wrapped in cloth and kept next to the body for warmth)

noun:

• palisade; stakes planted at irregular angles and intervals as a defensive barrier

noun:

• Asama-Sanso incident (famous hostage crisis and police siege in Feb. 1972)

noun:

• facility that serves meals and provides rooms for short-stay or overnight guests - abbreviation - From English "restaurant hotel" ➜ レストランホテル

noun:

• trehalose (used in foods as a sweetener, stabilizer and flavor enhancer) (stabiliser) (flavour)

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• (with) unkempt hair and dirty face; being indifferent to one's personal appearance - four character idiom

noun:

• dogcatcher; person who used to catch dogs and execute them for rabies prevention - slang

noun:

• beautiful white-skinned lady (usu. wrt to freckle removal and skin whitening products)

adjectival noun:

• restless; on edge (and unable to concentrate); distracted

adverb:

• for some reason - of an emotional or psychological state ➜ そぞろに

noun:

• crab meat mixed with vegetables and egg yolk, steamed inside its shell

noun:

• crushed sesame seeds boiled in water and chilled like tofu

noun:

• condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile) - Food term

noun / ~する noun:

• ding-dong dash (ringing a doorbell and running away)

noun:

• legless lizard (esp. Anguidae spp., incl. glass lizards and slow worms)

noun:

• Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo ➜ 菩薩

noun:

• Great Northern War (Sweden vs. Russia, Poland, Denmark, Saxony and Hanover: 1700-1721)

noun:

• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
• clan - archaism

expression:

• wives and tatami are best when they're new