noun:

• the system in government offices and business corporations in which draft proposals are prepared by someone in charge of the matter and circulated for collective deliberation and final approval by particular (designated) officials or executives - four character idiom

noun:

• furniture designed by individual designer

noun:

• seven boarding schools established in Kyoto by noble families during the early Heian period ➜ 大学別曹

noun:

• system indicating court ranks by headgear colors (colours)

noun:

• erection of a pillar by sinking it directly into the ground

noun:

• for use by men

noun / ~の noun:

• selection by the state (esp. of a defense lawyer); appointment; assignment ➜ 私選

noun:

• era during mid-1990s dominated by grand champions Akebono and Takanohana II - Sumo term

noun:

• behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; 2nd year of junior high sickness [literal] - slang - humorous term

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story - colloquialism ➜ 泣き落とし

noun / ~する noun:

• being circumscribed by one's own words and actions

noun:

• manzai (comic dialogue) accompanied by music

noun:

• by months

noun:

• damage to skin by ceruse

noun:

• prostitution in which services are provided by several women in rotation (esp. in "pink salons") ➜ ピンクサロン

noun:

• killing by inches

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

noun / ~する noun:

• winning by an ippon; winning by a point - Martial Arts term

noun:

• selling something by the boxful (in a wooden masu box)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to fade something by overwashing it

noun / ~の noun:

• relative by marriage; affinity

noun:

• New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor

noun:

• accompanied by a man; accompanied by men

noun:

• revised by section chief