noun:

• fertile shoot of field horsetail ➜ 杉菜
• wooden stick with a burned tip (used to create underdrawings) ［どひつ］ ➜ 焼き筆

expression:

• apropos of nothing; to change the subject

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to be ahead of

noun:

• transcription of Chinese classics into Japanese

noun:

• bed of salted rice bran used for pickling ➜ 糠漬け【ぬかづけ】

noun:

• Edo-period lump of silver used as currency ➜ 豆板銀【まめいたぎん】

expression:

• each ministry thinks only of its own good, but not of the good of the country; when there are ministries, there is no country [literal] - proverb

noun:

• pot of chicken or seafood, and vegetables in a dashi broth, usu. cooked at the table (traditionally a winter meal); seafood and vegetable stew or chowder ➜ 寄せ

noun:

• avenue of approach

noun:

• decay (decline, corruption) of public morals; moral decadence - four character idiom

noun:

• budget of padded (empty) figures

noun:

• artist-monk

noun:

• number of people

noun / ~する noun:

• self-removal of stitches (esp. of pets, animals); self-extraction of sutures ➜ 抜糸

noun:

• set-of type - IT term

noun:

• effectiveness of advertising

noun:

• (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom

noun:

• cutting blade of a plane

noun:

• investing of an official appointed by the Emperor

noun:

• seven generations of celestial deities ➜ 地神五代

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi - obscure term ➜ 忘れ緒

noun:

• crime of preparing to commit homicide - Law term

noun / adjectival noun:

• of strict morals (moral principles); highly moral - four character idiom

noun:

• hard shell of a nut, etc.

noun:

• sense of honour (honor)