noun:

• inside corner (baseball, racetrack, etc.) - From English "in corner" ➜ アウトコーナー

noun:

• indies; independent film or music

noun / ~する noun:

• entering text using a keyboard - obscure term - From English "type in"

adverb:

• like that (used for something or someone distant from both speaker and listener); so ➜ 斯う・然う・如何【どう】

noun:

• dogcatcher; person who used to catch dogs and execute them for rabies prevention - slang

noun:

• red and black lacquered sake cask with horn-like handles, used for ceremonies ➜ 酒樽

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) ➜ 七曜
• Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine ➜ 真鰯

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

expression:

• in either case (used specifically in the instance of two possible outcomes or situations); either way; one way or another

noun:

• wrestling in which both wrestlers grasp the other's belt with both hands - Sumo term

adverb / ~と adverb:

• drumming (noise); beating; pounding; banging; booming; stamping - onomatopoeia
• rapidly; quickly; steadily - onomatopoeia
• continuously; one after the other; in succession - onomatopoeia

noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

noun:

• something; something or other; so-and-so ➜ 何とか彼とか

noun:

• standard length of material used in a kimono

noun:

• oval tub or tray used in fish shops

noun:

• hand used like a sword in striking

noun:

• hanging-banner used as ornament in Buddhist temples

noun:

• small shovel or trowel used in gardening

noun:

• roasted pork fillet (often used in ramen) - Food term - From Chinese "chashao"

pronoun:

• self-deprecating first person pronoun used in letters - archaism - male language

noun:

• Japanese bigleaf magnolia bark (used in Chinese medicine) ➜ 朴の木

noun:

• bonang (small gongs used in the Javanese gamelan) - From Indonesian ➜ ガムラン

noun:

• cross (used in a crucifixion)

noun:

• total number of words used (in a text)

noun:

• hourglass drum used in Nara-period court music ➜ 高麗楽