noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• full flush; winning hand containing only tiles of one suit - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• homogeneity (e.g. manuf. using products from one source)

noun:

• poor who do not (or are unable to) seek help (from relatives or the authorities, etc.) - From English "silent poor"

noun:

• opposite side; other side; opposite direction
• over there; that way; far away; beyond
• the other party; the other person
• future (starting now)

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to repeat a mistake (of somebody); to make the same mistake as that of ...; to follow the rut (left by someone else) [literal] ➜ 前車の轍を踏む・前轍を踏む

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

expression / adverb:

• at precisely this moment; at precisely that moment; just then; just when

noun:

• once in a lifetime (opportunity); (a golden opportunity that may) happen only once in a thousand years - four character idiom

noun:

• Pediculus humanus (species of louse that infests humans); body louse; body lice; head louse; head lice

noun:

• early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian - From Portuguese "cristao"

noun:

• beginning and end; from beginning to end
• result; outcome; course of events

noun / ~する noun:

• dealing with something successfully

adverb:

• for a long time; since long ago; from childhood
• bright and early; early in the morning

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing snow down a mountain
• removing snow from the roof of a house

noun:

• immunity from arrest (i.e. of Diet members or foreign diplomats); diplomatic immunity; parliamentary immunity; legislative immunity

noun:

• full-face diving mask which seals the whole face from the water

expression:

• the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; like father, like son - proverb

noun:

• provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period) - archaism

noun:

• poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439); Imperial collection of poetry

noun / ~の noun:

• made by hitting (e.g. striking stone flakes from a tool stone); made using lithic reduction ➜ 打製石器

noun:

• moving shallow; spawning run; movement of fish from deep to shallow water during the spawning season

expression:

• sleep brings up a child well; a well-slept child is a well-kept child - proverb

noun:

• maki sushi typically made from eel and cucumber, often with a face-like pattern when cut - from うなぎ and かっぱ
• mascot character used by Tajimi City in Gifu

noun:

• Japan surgeonfish (Acanthurus japonicus, Indo-West Pacific species of tang found from Indonesia to the Philippines and Ryukyu Islands)

noun:

• var. of mochi made from a mixture of rice flour and sweet bean paste (famous product of Kagoshima)

noun:

• tenmoku; ceramics (esp. tea bowls) with a dark glaze that resembles oil spotting
• tenmoku tea-bowl; dark-glazed conical tea-bowl of Chinese origin - abbreviation ➜ 天目茶碗