noun:

• being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other - four character idiom

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to repeat the mistake of somebody; to make the same mistake as that of ... - idiom ➜ 轍を踏む

noun:

• large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp - also written as 大頭
• emperor's encampment

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product

noun:

• labyrinth spinefoot (Siganus labyrinthodes, species of Western Central Pacific rabbitfish known from Indonesia and thought more widespread)

noun:

• pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine

noun:

• Buddhist decoration engraved with various motifs, often made from gilt copper (e.g. for adorning the inner shrine of a temple) - Buddhism term

noun:

• daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
• Bodhidharma
• prostitute

noun:

• from island to island; island-hopping

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow cold (from room temperature, e.g. in refrigerator); to get chilly; to cool down

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hold back others from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage

noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

noun:

• orchestra present at Japanese festival; festival music (may be sung from a festival float)

noun:

• cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)

noun / ~する noun:

• forming a kong by adding a tile drawn from the wall to a declared pung - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun / ~の noun:

• conditions; strings attached; restriction; restrictions; controls

noun:

• something that has a cord or string attached (e.g. clothes)
• having a lover; lover - of a woman
• criminal; someone bound by ropes ➜ 縄付き

noun:

• being unfit for duty in the former Japanese military (due to failing the conscription physical); person who is unfit for military duty

expression / ichidan verb:

• to compare and contrast two alternatives; to weigh the relative merits of A and B; to weigh one's options
• to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools ➜ 両天秤を掛ける

noun:

• real feeling; actual feeling

~する noun:

• to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally

noun:

• proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

noun / suffix noun:

• down-train (going away from Tokyo)
• down-slope; downward going

~の noun:

• southbound

noun:

• wheat flour - colloquialism ➜ 小麦粉・メリケン
• flour made using wheat imported from America - orig. meaning

noun:

• loin ham; ham made from pork loin - From English "roast ham"

noun:

• looking on from the side; looking on by an outsider