noun:

• yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer
• grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow) - obsolete term
• failing to win a single hand during a half-game - Mahjong term

noun:

• sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue)

noun:

• sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue) - abbreviation

expression:

• each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of

noun:

• rich person; wealthy person
• taking good care of things; keeping things for a long time and taking care of them

expression:

• (from rakugo) that's all from me, and now the next speaker ...; expression used to hand over to the next speaker

noun:

• bright red tinged with yellow
• variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region) ➜ 川越芋

noun:

• something-something; yada yada; so-and-so ➜ うんたら

expression:

• East is East, and West is West - proverb

noun:

• blotting sheet (as a cosmetic aid for removing oils and make up); blotting paper; oil absorbing sheet; oil absorbing paper

expression:

• (e.g. to walk, stand, etc., until) one's legs turn to lead; (doing something) until one's legs tire and stiffen

noun:

• sauteed vegetables with fish or poultry made into a stew
• poultry or fish stew with chili peppers and Welsh onions mixed in

noun:

• bow (and arrow)
• unit of distance to an archery target (approx. six feet)
• unit of distance for land surveying (approx. eight feet)

noun:

• young woman strongly interested in pre-Edo history; young woman making use of speech and mannerisms of pre-industrial Japan; female history buff

noun:

• Griffiths' pygmy-goby (Trimma griffithsi, found in the Indo-West Pacific); princess pygmy goby (Trimma marinae, found in Japan, New Guinea and Palau)

noun:

• imperial palace; person living in the imperial palace (esp. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 内裏
• festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress - polite language ➜ 内裏雛

expression / noun:

• too-good-to-be-true offers (e.g. scams and frauds); too-good-to-be-true stories

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put away one's bedding
• to recover from an illness (and put away one's sickbed)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly); to imply something in a roundabout way - idiom

noun:

• World Heritage (cultural, natural, etc.); World Cultural and Natural Heritage (UNESCO)

noun:

• (large number of people, esp. students) singing and dancing around a bonfire at night - From English "fire storm"

noun:

• hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds) ➜ 下町・山手【やまて】
• place near the mountains ➜ 山手【やまて】

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

adjectival noun:

• of the old feeling of naniwa-bushi; marked by the dual themes of obligation and compassion that distinguish the naniwa-bushi ballads ➜ 浪花節

noun:

• Galapagos phenomenon; Galapagos syndrome; tendency of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) to be designed specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species ➜ ガラパゴス化