noun:

• registered mail for the purpose of sending money

expression:

• trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; The cure is worse than the disease - four character idiom

noun:

• sharp taste of (refined) salt

noun:

• determination of a child's sex before birth (e.g. by ultrasound)

noun:

• system of self-management; honour system

adjective:

• reeking of liquor; smelling of alcohol

noun / ~の noun:

• right-of-center faction (group); center-right (centre) - four character idiom

noun:

• moon-viewing on either the night of the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunisolar calendar or on the night of the 13th day of the 9th month of the lunisolar calendar, but not both nights

noun:

• acquisition of a qualification

noun:

• style of a haikai or haiku poem ➜ 俳諧・俳句

expression / noun:

• young lover of an older woman

noun:

• sense of beauty; aesthetic sense

noun:

• Bank of Japan; BOJ; BoJ - abbreviation ➜ 日本銀行

noun:

• strain of microorganism

noun / adjectival noun:

• the point of an argument being unclear; the tenor of an argument being poorly reasoned - four character idiom

noun:

• sound of walking - onomatopoeia

noun:

• stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus ➜ 地謡座

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; for the most important parts to be done; the nose and eyes are in place [literal] - idiom

noun:

• centrepiece of a table - From English "table center"

noun:

• sound of the autumn wind; sound of the fall wind

noun:

• bones of the feet - obscure term
• the strength of one's feet

noun:

• book of oral narratives; story book

expression / adverb:

• out of character; unlike one ➜ 柄にも無い【がらにもない】

noun:

• belonging to no party or school of thought

noun:

• rule of an occupying power