noun:

• dragon flute; medium-pitched bark-covered bamboo transverse flute with seven holes, used in gagaku

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be quiet (due to lack of activity); to be in a slump (of a business) - idiom ➜ 閑古鳥

noun:

• saddening (dye); agent used in dyeing to darken a colour
• blanching - Food term

noun / ~の noun:

• back and front; opposition in the heart

suffix / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be doing; to be in the process of doing - with masu stem ➜ つつ

noun:

• galley; tray used for printing ［ゲラ］
• galley proof ［ゲラ］ - abbreviation ➜ ゲラ刷り
• one who laughs easily - Kansai dialect ➜ ゲラゲラ

noun:

• place where hair is gathered together atop the head; hair tied (or pinned) together in this position - archaism

noun:

• friendly-greeting campaign; campaign for people to exchange greetings

noun:

• butoh; style of contemporary Japanese dance featuring dancers in white paint

noun:

• Shizuoka-cha; prized Japanese green tea cultivated in Shizuoka Prefecture

proper noun:

• faithful dog Hachiko; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• recently; not long ago; for a while recently; all the while recently - obsolete term

noun:

• bum; slacker; good-for-nothing; loser

noun / ~する noun:

• warehousing; storing in a warehouse ➜ 蔵出し

expression / noun:

• the pot calling the kettle black; people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - idiom

noun:

• seirogan; beechwood extract popular as a herbal treatment for diarrhoea (diarrhea), etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting a thin object (e.g. vegetable stalk) at a 45 degree angle; cutting in a way that blunts or rounds the cut ➜ 削ぐ

adverb:

• one after another; in succession

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make something one's own; to appropriate for oneself

noun:

• double-sided wait (for one's last tile); wait for either of two different tiles to complete a chow which will finish one's hand - Mahjong term ➜ 両面待ち【リャンメンまち】

expression / noun / adjectival noun:

• lacking substance; poor in content

noun:

• kalavinka; imaginary bird in paradise that sings sweet notes - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

noun:

• poets and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting, and calligraphy - four character idiom

~の noun:

• agricultural; for agricultural use

noun:

• superior talent and strategic wisdom; outstanding abilities and a talent for developing and implementing grand strategies - four character idiom