noun:

• New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

noun:

• backslapping; a smile and a tap on the shoulder [literal]
• backslapper; someone who smiles and gives you a slap on the shoulder; someone who wins people over

noun:

• texture; "grain" of a fabric or cloth; direction of the loom or weave in a roll of fabric

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back - onomatopoeia
• action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; (with a) bob of the head - onomatopoeia

noun:

• quadruple time; four-four time; common time - Music term
• the four instruments in the accompanying orchestra in noh, etc. (flute, floor drum, small hand drum, large hand drum) - Music term ➜ 囃子【はやし】・笛【ふえ】・大鼓【おおつづみ】・小鼓【こつづみ】・太鼓【たいこ】

expression:

• you've hit the nail on the head; that's just what I thought; that's exactly like I feel; that's exactly what I think, too

noun:

• new rice field; newly developed rice field
• wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)

noun / ~する noun:

• invention

adjectival noun:

• intelligent; clever ➜ 聡明

noun / ~する noun:

• being enlightened; having the meaning of everything become clear - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• bridge building; mediation; go-between; intermediary; (through the) good offices (of someone)

noun:

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

adverb / ~と adverb:

• rapidly; one after the other - onomatopoeia
• without hesitation; unreservedly; freely - onomatopoeia
• sound of tramping; stomping - onomatopoeia

noun:

• vortex; maelstrom; whirlpool
• (in the middle of a) scandal; controversy; quarrel; turmoil

noun:

• exaggeration; overstatement; saying too much
• misstatement; slip of the tongue; gaffe

noun:

• vocal message; speech; statement
• prologue at the start of a kabuki performance

noun / ~する noun:

• settling or depositing (at the bottom of something); deposition; pigmentation

noun / adjectival noun:

• composure; calmness

noun / ~する noun:

• dying at one's post; being killed in the line of duty

noun:

• first three days of the New Year (January 1st to 3rd)

adjectival noun / noun:

• rough-hewn; incomplete; unrefined; still in the process of being formed

noun:

• story; topic (on everyone's lips); (the stuff of) legend

noun:

• driving opponent out of the ring while gripping his belt - Sumo term

noun:

• spare umbrella kept (at work) in the event of a sudden shower

noun:

• occupying forces (esp. of the Allies in Japan after World War II)

noun:

• Japanese andromeda (Pieris japonica); lily-of-the-valley

noun:

• colophon (at the end of a book); imprint; publication information

noun:

• family tradition
• wind blowing from the direction of one's home ［いえかぜ］ - archaism