noun:

• weight-loss diet accompanied by meticulous notes about when and what one has eaten - From English "recording diet" ➜ レコダイ

noun:

• bench (i.e. for bathroom); seat; small piece of furniture upon which one can sit on ➜ 腰掛け

adverb:

• straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly; at once

noun:

• crown (of head); summit (of mountain); spire - esp. 頂
• easy win for one - 頂き,戴き
• something received - 頂き,戴き

noun:

• heart; mind

noun / suffix:

• spirit; vitality; inner strength ➜ 愛郷心
• Chinese "Heart" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】
• friend - archaism

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• fastidiousness; enthusiasm for one thing; meticulousness; monomania; obsession
• susceptibility for a stiffening of the shoulders

noun:

• being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets)
• going in one ear and out the other

noun:

• happi coat (esp. one designed in a western style); happy coat ➜ 法被

noun:

• outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo - abbreviation ➜ 外様大名
• outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group

noun:

• lecture (esp. special engagement by noted speaker); lecture meeting (event with one or more lectures)

noun / ~する noun:

• reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)

noun:

• training partner
• training hall (esp. one made of wooden planks and used for dancing practice)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn out just as one wished; to play into the hands (of)

expression:

• It is justifiable to kill one (harmful) person to save the lives of many - four character idiom

expression:

• similar things turning up one after another; bamboo shoots after rain [literal]

noun:

• one of the accent patterns of Japanese words, with a rising and then falling pitch

noun:

• soot-colored bamboo (coloured)
• bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end) ➜ すす払い

noun:

• Pseudocarcharias (sole genus of the family Pseudocarchariidae containing one species of crocodile shark)

noun:

• game in which one makes a big snowball by rolling it around in the snow

noun:

• place where one can view a vast number of cherry blossom trees at a glance - esp. 吉野山 in Nara

noun:

• all pungs; winning hand consisting of four pungs or kongs and one pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• shop where one can buy and sell gift certificates, coupons, travel and concert tickets, etc. ➜ 金券ショップ【きんけんショップ】

noun:

• single-night performance (theatre, comedy, etc.); one-night stand

noun:

• patient's chart; clinical records - From German "Karte"
• record (e.g. student, equipment maintenance, etc.)

noun:

• the opening(s) (e.g. in a game of go or chess)