noun:

• family clan based on the paternal line, sharing the same tomb and performing rituals together (Okinawa)

noun:

• liquid gold (used for applying gold to ceramics, etc.)
• Wednesday and Friday ［すいきん］ ➜ 月水金【げっすいきん】
• bribe; sweetener; douceur

noun:

• black-lacquered cowhide boots with curved toes, metal buckles, and brocade tops (worn with ceremonial dress)

expression / adjective:

• all bark and no bite; unable to live up to one's claims

noun:

• points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term

noun:

• pure double chow; winning hand containing two identical chows (i.e. same numbers and same suit) - Mahjong term ➜ 一盃口【イーペーコー】

noun:

• Vocaloid; singing voice synthesis software and related products, or a humanoid persona voiced by such software

noun:

• pogo; dance in which one jumps up and down to the beat of the music

noun:

• government property
• taxes and other fees paid by the provinces to the governement (ritsuryo system) ［かんもつ］

noun:

• horse oil; extract of horse subcutaneous fat, used in cosmetics and traditional medicine

noun:

• observing and reviewing the effects of a drug after it has been released onto the market

noun:

• Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)

noun:

• white sandbar; white sandbank
• area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles
• gravel separating a Noh stage from the audience
• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism ➜ お白州

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to disappear into; to be lost in; to slip into; to get mixed in among
• to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.)
• to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar
• to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.); to forget about
• to be distracted by; to be too absorbed in

noun:

• adjectival noun (Japanese); quasi-adjective; nominal adjective; na-, taru-, nari- and tari-adjective - Linguistics term

noun:

• three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito) ➜ 三家【さんけ】
• big three; top three

noun:

• vertical axis; vertical line
• vertical shaft; spindle
• connection between past and present

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to blow strongly and continuously

godan ~る verb:

• to brag endlessly; to boast ceaselessly

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another

noun:

• adjectival noun (Japanese); quasi-adjective; nominal adjective; na-, taru-, nari- and tari-adjective - part of speech tag used in dictionaries - abbreviation - Linguistics term ➜ 形容動詞

noun:

• the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter - archaism

noun:

• the true, the good, and the beautiful

noun:

• whole egg; egg white and egg yolk

noun:

• wild geese; large geese and small geese [literal] - poetical term

noun:

• being one in body and soul; of one flesh; two hearts beating as one - four character idiom