noun:

• deviation-value-oriented education; education focussed on test results; education that stresses studying and passing exams to raise one's ranking; academic cramming

noun:

• quite absurd thing; something ridiculous that makes one laugh
• extremely irritating thing

noun:

• Rip van Winkle feeling; feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown

noun:

• Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)

noun:

• bout that goes according to a wrestler's strategy; match that goes according to one's plan - four character idiom - Sumo term

noun:

• losing move (go, shogi); move that costs one the game ➜ 勝着

noun:

• clean, freshly poured bath; hot water just poured into a bath that no one has entered yet

noun:

• late autumn (fall) windstorm in the countryside; typhoon, esp. one that blows from the 210th to the 220th day of the year ➜ 二百十日・二百二十日・台風
• name of the 28th roll of the Genji monogatari

noun:

• fortifying mochi; mochi that improves one's strength
• mochi received from one's parents after giving birth ➜ 汁の餅
• mochi given to a toddler on its first birthday

noun:

• show-off underwear; wearing clothes that reveal part of one's pants

noun:

• solipsism; philosophical idea that nothing outside of one's own mind really exists

~と adverb:

• feelings; memories; imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other - onomatopoeia ➜ にょきにょき

noun:

• magic mallet; lucky mallet; nursery-tale mallet that delivers one's heart's desire at a wave

expression / noun:

• pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】・立つ鳥跡を濁さず

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】

noun:

• green willow (i.e. one that has budded)
• meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis) ［あおやぎ］ ➜ バカ貝

noun / ~する noun:

• spell (that restricts one's movements); binding spell

noun:

• true fruit (i.e. one that forms from the ovary only) ➜ 偽果

noun:

• (food that meets one's) taste; treatment

noun:

• type-1 adjective (i.e. one that uses "ku" conjugation) - obscure term - Linguistics term ➜ ク活用

noun:

• type-2 adjective (i.e. one that uses "shiku" conjugation) - obscure term - Linguistics term ➜ シク活用

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior) - idiom

noun:

• yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram) ➜ 卦

noun / ~する noun:

• wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist) - slang