noun:

• dry lacquer statue; statue made from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with laquer

noun:

• novel from the late Edo period focused on the love stories of ordinary townsfolk

noun:

• (in Japanese history) crude warrior from the eastern parts of the country; wild man

noun:

• grain thief; tool for extracting rice from a bag for sampling

noun:

• words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts

noun:

• deep double underarm grip which prevents the opponent from grabbing the belt - Sumo term

noun:

• shift away from rice consumption; consumers losing interest in eating rice

noun:

• mounted bandit (esp. historically in NE China from the end of the Qing dynasty)

noun:

• words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts ➜ 放送禁止用語

noun:

• type of hanging scroll (made from paper of approx. 130cm x 30cm in size)

noun:

• over-the-counter drug; medication bought directly from the drugstore without a prescription ➜ 売薬

noun:

• deep bathtub with a water-heating tank; bathtub heated from below ➜ すいふろ

noun:

• small boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat (Edo period); lighter ➜ 瀬取り船

noun:

• wedge marks in stone (usu. remaining from stone-splitting, now used for visual effect) - obscure term ➜ 矢【や】

noun:

• generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward) ➜ ゆとり教育【ゆとりきょういく】

noun:

• Brexit; withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to stay bottled up inside oneself; to be introverted
• to have a melancholic appearance, atmosphere (of a person, object, place); to have a gloomy appearance

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be smart; to be cool; to be sharp; to be stylish

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to scramble for; to struggle for; to contend for; to fight for

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be astonished; to be flabbergasted; to be startled; to be amazed - from たまきえる

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to crawl out; to creep out
• to begin to crawl

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be boiled; to be cooked; to be done; to be ready

ichidan verb:

• to be difficult to ascertain; to be difficult to understand ➜ 分かり辛い

yodan ~る verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be revived - archaism ➜ 甦る【よみがえる】