noun:

• kayōkyoku; form of Japanese popular music that developed during the Showa era
• (Western) pop song - early Showa era term

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮紙

expression / ichidan verb:

• to open the lid; to lift a lid Antonym: 蓋を閉める
• to open the lid (on); to make public - idiom
• to start (something) - idiom
• to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect); to look at the condition of something - idiom
• to open (of a theatre) - idiom

noun:

• determined purpose
• an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought) - Buddhism term
• a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土宗

noun:

• Japanese leek (Allium chinense); Chinese onion
• sour-sweet pickle of Japanese leek - abbreviation

noun:

• Japanese-style business management; adoption of Japanese business practices (such as lifelong employment, seniority-based promotions, etc.)

noun:

• province-district-neighbourhood system (system of administrative divisions under the ritsuryo; 1 neighbourhood=~50 homes, 1 district=2-20 neighbourhoods) ➜ 郷里制・律令制

noun:

• layering; placing a large amount of orders and cancelling before they are executed (with the intent of manipulating the market) - Finance term ➜ 見せ板【みせいた】

noun:

• layering; placing a large amount of orders and cancelling before they are executed (with the intent of manipulating the market) - Finance term

noun:

• Japanese rhodea (plant of the lily family); Rhodea japonica

noun:

• var. of Japanese paper made from the Oriental paper bush

noun:

• mole under the eye (supposedly due to having cried)

noun:

• prisoner (for one to three years under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 徒【ず】

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

noun:

• word of Japanese origin; native Japanese word

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life)

noun:

• first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence)
• initials (of one's name)

noun:

• piggybacking marketing; the method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (often brought on by retirement of the husband) - colloquialism - four character idiom

noun:

• stepping out of the ring while carrying the opponent over the edge, not considered as a loss - Sumo term

noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

noun:

• conjunctive form; continuative form; -masu stem of a Japanese verb - Linguistics term

noun:

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

expression:

• there are no cowardly soldiers under a superior general - proverb