noun:

• an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing ➜ 学園祭

noun:

• add-in software - IT term

noun:

• the United Kingdom

noun:

• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

noun:

• place for ritual cleansing of hands and mouth with water when visiting shrines

noun:

• direct transmission (of mystery, skill, secret, etc.); initiation

expression:

• by the way; incidentally

adverb:

• sometimes; occasionally

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to get along well with

noun:

• putting on the tsuna - Sumo term ➜ 綱【つな】

expression:

• man is the crown of creation - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• vowing to follow the precepts - Buddhism term

adverb:

• with a thud - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• traffic network extending in all directions - four character idiom

noun:

• nape of the neck

noun:

• boiling in an iron pot
• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to find a food one likes by rummaging in one's dish, pot, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

expression:

• struggling to grab hold of one's opponent's belt with one's dominant hand - Sumo term

noun:

• six objective fields of the senses (shape and colour, sound, scent, flavour, physical feeling, and mental presentation) - Buddhism term

~の noun:

• perfectly in sync; in step (dancing); on the same wavelength

noun:

• (looking) over the top of one's glasses
• (looking) through a pair of glasses

noun / ~する noun:

• recovering the remains of soldiers (e.g. Japanese soldiers who died abroad during WWII)

adverb:

• for the first time

noun:

• fish with a human-looking face

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a person in one's service; to employ

noun:

• holding the proper state of mindfulness at the moment of death - four character idiom - Buddhism term