noun:

• Japanese version of baseball played with a hard rubber ball - Sports term ➜ 硬式野球

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to perform religious rites for the repose of a soul

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop in the middle of a sentence

noun:

• most attractive feature of a person - From English "charm point"

noun:

• constriction; narrow part (in middle)
• waist (esp. of a woman) ➜ 胴のくびれ

noun:

• final three bouts on the last day of a tournament - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• a reading leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• familism; the treatment of society (an organization) as a family

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom

noun:

• strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building) - four character idiom

noun:

• Japanese pronunciation of a kanji (based on adopted Chinese pronunciations) ➜ 音読み

adverb:

• suddenly; all of a sudden; quickly; emphatically; energetically - onomatopoeia

noun:

• elder chief of a village or town during Edo Period - archaism ➜ 年寄り

noun:

• reinforcing "bolt" stitch across the bottom of a seam

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to break on the shore and retreat (of a wave)

noun:

• inspection of personal belongings (e.g. before entering a venue)

noun:

• ninja weapon disguised as a pair of garden shears

adverb:

• slap (sound of a flat object continuously striking something)
• splash

noun:

• string tied across the open chest of a haori

noun:

• stinger (of a bee, etc.)
• needle covered with poison - only どくばり

noun:

• parison (first small bubble at the end of a blowpipe)

expression:

• dexterous feat; speed and precision of a trained hand

adverb:

• with a single flash of light; glitteringly; sparklingly; twinklingly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• championship; defense (e.g. of a position in debate); apologetics

noun:

• area where a string of nuclear power plants are located - four character idiom