noun:

• (Japanese) electoral system allowing for the election of from 3 to 5 candidates from one district ➜ 大選挙区制

noun:

• ridged wooden bench used in SM practices (and in the Edo period for torturing female prisoners)

noun:

• par save (in golf, number of shots above par for that hole)

noun:

• pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces - archaism ➜ 律令制・総領

noun:

• hot water (esp. cold mineral spring water heated up at the right temperature for bathing)

noun:

• liquid gold (used for applying gold to ceramics, etc.)
• Wednesday and Friday ［すいきん］ ➜ 月水金【げっすいきん】
• bribe; sweetener; douceur

noun:

• unique manuka factor; UMF; quality grading system for manuka honey

noun:

• soft vinyl; vinyl chloride monomer, used for moulded shapes such as toys ➜ ソフビ

noun:

• battlecry; cheer; cry where one breathes in a large volume of air and then releases it suddenly in a loud cry ➜ 鬨の声

noun / ~する noun:

• rushing at the enemy ➜ 突貫

expression / noun:

• something that looks difficult but actually isn't; swimming in a cold lake during mid-winter seems difficult, but it's nothing to a kappa - idiom

noun:

• various intimate services (e.g. massage) rendered by a female high school student or young woman wearing a high school uniform ➜ ｊｋ

noun:

• water ball; large inflatable sphere that allows a person inside it to walk across the surface of a body of water

noun / ~する noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• targetting; aiming at a specific target; pinpointing

noun / ~する noun:

• selective hitting; swinging only at certain types of pitches - Baseball term
• having no choice in a move (e.g. mahjong, go, etc.)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else

noun:

• tiered doll stand (for hina dolls) ➜ 雛人形
• tiered platform; tiered gallery

noun:

• Shōwa restoration; Showa restoration; call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to aim for laughs; to play to the crowd

noun:

• conical hat (East-Asian style); coolie hat
• something shaped like a conical hat or an umbrella; shade (of a lamp); mushroom cap; pileus ➜ 傘【かさ】

noun:

• skeleton (of a vertebrate, ship, building, etc.)
• transparency (revealing the inner workings of a device); translucency; see-through body
• skeleton (sport)
• skeleton (code) - IT term

expression:

• a state called; a position described as; can sum up as; approximates to
• places known as; that called
• the place named

expression:

• person who swaggers about under borrowed authority; small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority; a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger [literal] - idiom

noun:

• tally; check; piece of wood or paper split in half and given to each party as a form of proof (e.g. of a transaction)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to reel; to wind; to spin (thread)
• to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to leaf through (a book); to consult (a dictionary); to refer to (an encyclopedia)
• to count (e.g. the days)
• to open one-by-one; to close one-by-one (e.g. shutters)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.); to spread out; to become clear (of a road, visibility, etc.); to open up
• to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.); to get better
• to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.); to become civilized; to modernize; to grow; to advance (of knowledge, ideas, etc.)
• to be sensible; to be understanding; to be enlightened
• to open (of a new road, railway, etc.); to be opened to traffic
• to become populous; to become densely built; to become bustling

godan ~く verb:

• to spread out; to lay out
• to take a position
• to impose widely (e.g. over a city) ➜ 法令を敷く