noun:

• behavior (esp. in response to an emergency, medical situation, etc.)

noun:

• Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)

noun:

• illegal arrest and imprisonment resulting in death or bodily injury

noun:

• vase - honorific language - Buddhism term
• vessel for water used in an esoteric Buddhist baptism - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 灌頂

noun:

• old orogenic belt; mountain belts formed in the Palaeozoic era

noun:

• restaurant specializing in fried beef or pork offal ➜ ホルモン焼き

noun:

• sociolect spoken in the Tokyo area by gyaru - Linguistics term ➜ ギャル

noun:

• rhinoceros hide
• Chinese lacquerware technique resulting in a mottled finish - abbreviation ➜ 犀皮塗り【さいひぬり】

noun:

• section of recitative (esp. in noh music) - archaism - Music term ➜ 謡曲

noun:

• horse carriage for old people and women in ancient China

noun:

• shade under a tree in full leaf
• summer

noun:

• language game in which extra syllables are added to words - e.g. やきもち→やしきしもしちし

noun:

• young mottled spinefoot pickled in salt (usu. served on tofu) - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ 藍子

noun:

• most hallowed grounds (of a sacred site in Okinawa) ➜ 御嶽【うたき】

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to make a diagonal move (in the game of go)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• recording audio at home (as opposed to in a studio) - abbreviation ➜ 自宅録音【じたくろくおん】

noun / ~する noun:

• recording audio at home (as opposed to in a studio)

noun:

• warrior monks from Enryaku temple at Mt. Hiei in Kyoto

expression / noun:

• very small difference (esp. in time); tiny interval

noun:

• egg boiled, peeled, and steeped in soy sauce marinade - Food term

noun:

• brazier for warming one's cold fingers, esp. in spring

noun:

• letting horses out the barn to graze (in spring)

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary boiling (of hard-to-cook ingredients); cooking in advance

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving water in the bathtub (to use later for laundry)