noun:

• blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ 妻黒

noun:

• booth or stall set up on the sidewalk in front of a shop or home (esp. food booths at festivals) - Kansai dialect ➜ 床店【とこみせ】・出店【でみせ】

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・ピー柿

noun:

• Bureau of Onmyō; government office in charge of astronomical observations, divination and calendar making (under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term

expression:

• if you are hungry, where you eat doesn't matter; manjū in the toilet [literal] - proverb ➜ まんじゅう
• hiding something good for oneself alone - idiom

noun:

• origin
• variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; for haori: at least 7.27 m in length; for other clothes: at least 6.06 m in length ➜ 反【たん】

suffix:

• tip; extremity

noun:

• the poor; the needy; the destitute

noun / ~の noun:

• the extraordinary; the unusual; the unexpected

noun:

• rainy season (in Japan from early June to mid-July)
• rain during the rainy season

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to draw (the winning ticket)
• to apply; to compare; to put (oneself in someone's position) ➜ 当てはめる

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it); to survive a fire

noun:

• execution by decapitation, followed by public display of the body (form of punishment in ancient China) - archaism

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)

noun:

• opposite the front; front seats in a theater; stalls; orchestra seats
• (seat facing) south side of ring - Sumo term

noun:

• nursing in the home by visiting nurses - From English "day service"

noun:

• any of a number of respectful terms written after the addressee's name in a formal letter

noun / ~する noun:

• departing early in the morning
• departing earlier than scheduled

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• premature (e.g. of an disease); early onset - Medicine term

noun:

• the 72 'climates' of the year based on the 24 solar seasons further divided into three ➜ 節気・候【こう】

expression:

• the sand on the beach may disappear, but the makings of thieves never shall (Ishikawa Goemon)

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんすことば

noun:

• debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods) - archaism

noun:

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

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to cut in; to thrust oneself into; to wedge oneself in; to muscle in on; to interrupt; to disturb

noun / ~する noun:

• removing one's hat
• admiring someone greatly; "taking off one's hat" to someone