noun:

• prevalence of arbitrariness; rife with arbitrary decisions (acting on one's own authority) - four character idiom

noun:

• (with) unkempt hair and dirty face; being indifferent to one's personal appearance - four character idiom

expression:

• I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable
• thank you very much (for help, etc.)

noun:

• replying to someone's email after a long delay; slow response - slang ➜ レス

noun:

• dullard (gen. from not picking up on other people's feelings) ➜ 鈍い【にぶい】

noun:

• Vaishya; Vaisya (member of India's merchant-and-farmer caste)

noun:

• "No." (Zhaozhou's answer to the koan "Does a dog have Buddha nature?") - Buddhism term ➜ 狗子仏性

noun:

• forming by hand (instead of using a potter's wheel, etc.); handwork

noun:

• pre-harvest estimate of a rice field's yield and selling price

noun:

• Emperor Meiji's birthday (November 3rd; national holiday held from 1927 to 1948) ➜ 文化の日

noun / adjectival noun:

• vibrancy; strength; bravery; manliness
• (esp. of men) one's prime (approx. age 30)

expression:

• there's no medicine for stupidity - proverb ➜ 馬鹿に付ける薬は無い

expression / adjective:

• very messy (of a floor); no space even for one's feet [literal] - idiom

noun:

• Peyronie's disease

noun:

• allotment of rice paddies for cultivation during the cultivator's lifetime (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• full slip (combining hadajuban and susoyoke) worn under women's kimono ➜ 肌襦袢【はだじゅばん】・裾除け【すそよけ】・長襦袢【ながじゅばん】

expression / adjective:

• preventing one's opponent from getting an underarm grip - Sumo term
• having weak defenses

noun:

• U shaped scissors with no place to put one's fingers; shears ➜ 和鋏【わばさみ】

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun:

• solipsism; philosophical idea that nothing outside of one's own mind really exists

noun:

• darling (only of a woman); dear; honey; my betrothed - archaism - familiar language
• one's sister - archaism
• friend - archaism - familiar language - female language

noun:

• National Military Establishment; forerunner to the U.S. Department of Defense (1947-1949)

noun / ~の noun:

• a woman's natural inclination to care for others; big-sisterly disposition

noun:

• playing doctor; children examining each other's genitals (often as a role play)

noun / ~する noun:

• keeping an eye on people's belongings (so they don't get stolen)