expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971); Agreement between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands

expression:

• the style is the man; the style is the man himself - from a quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc - proverb

noun:

• symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk)
• turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character - later printed as 〓

noun:

• dish of potatoes first boiled, then spun around while fried in a bowl (making them look as if covered in powder) - Food term

noun:

• the other side of a river
• the other side of the tracks; place where lower class people live - sensitive

noun:

• ability to take proper steps to meet the situation; ability to adapt oneself to (the requirement of) the moment - four character idiom

noun / suffix noun:

• stand; rack; table; bench; podium; pedestal; platform; stage
• support; holder; rack

counter:

• counter for machines, incl. vehicles

noun:

• setting (e.g. in jewellery)

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• level (e.g. price level); range (e.g. after physical units); period (of time, e.g. a decade of one's life) ➜ 代【だい】・代【だい】

noun:

• elevated area
• viewing platform
• dish tray ➜ 台盤
• meal - archaism
• tall building; tower - archaism ➜ 高殿

noun:

• colouring; coloring; shade of colour; shade of color
• sex appeal (esp. women); interest in the opposite sex; sensuality; seductiveness; glamor; glamour; sexual passion
• romance; poetry; charm
• desire; interest; inclination; ambition

noun:

• bad bacteria (usu. intestinal bacteria that have an adverse affect on human health - E. choli, C. welchii, etc.); pathogenic bacteria; harmful bacteria

noun:

• concealed winning hand consisting of chows, a pair that isn't a value pair, and an open wait - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• language spoken by the Emishi ➜ 蝦夷【えぞ】
• languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch) ➜ 南蛮【なんばん】
• foreign language

noun:

• small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival) ➜ 宵宮

godan ~ぶ verb:

• to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in

noun:

• in name and in reality; nominally and virtually; form and contents

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to conspire; to act in collusion; to be hand-in-glove

godan ~う verb:

• to co-operate (in enterprises); to hold in common; to share - archaism

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to fold in; to bear deep in mind; to follow up

noun:

• bagua mirror (mirror used in divination in fengshui); pa kua mirror

noun / ~の noun:

• other (place, thing, person); the rest
• outside; beyond - esp. 外 - usually written using kana alone

adverbial noun:

• nothing except; nothing but; nothing apart from; nothing aside from; no choice (but to) - as 〜ほか〜ない, usu. after より or the dictionary form of a verb - usually written using kana alone ➜ ほかない
• besides...; in addition to... - often as ほかに

conjunction:

• cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time

noun:

• conventions to be followed in composing Japanese poetry; phraseology; diction ➜ 句形
• rules of grammar and syntax when reading kanbun in Japanese ➜ 句形

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

noun:

• assistant in a duel (e.g. a cockfight, poetry contest, etc.) (Heian period)
• older male in an homosexual relationship ➜ 念者

noun:

• wooden rods (square, used in a pair) used in Kansai-area rakugo (e.g. to mark scene changes); small clapper