noun:

• nuclear allergy; antipathy shown by the Japanese to nuclear weapons

noun:

• the order forced on Koreans to change their names to Japanese ones - four character idiom

noun:

• birch tree (esp. the Japanese white birch, Betula platyphylla var. japonica)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go out (of a fire, etc.); to die out (before burning to ash) ➜ 立ち消え
• to fall through (of plans, etc.); to fizzle out; to come to nothing ➜ 立ち消え【たちぎえ】

expression / noun:

• the harmonizing, mentally and physically, of two parties engaged in an activity; singing from the same hymn-sheet; dancing to the same beat - idiom

noun:

• repeated events (meetings, drinking sessions, etc.); series of events; streak; straight
• dealer continuing as dealer and east after winning; dealer keep - orig. meaning - Mahjong term

noun:

• chrysanthemum sake; rice wine infused with chrysanthemum, served on the Chrysanthemum Festival (September 9th, 9/9) - Food term ➜ 重陽
• strong mirin, typical of Kaga and Higo provinces - Food term ➜ 味醂【みりん】

noun:

• little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old
• female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period) ［しょうじょ・少女］ - archaism

noun:

• soup with rice bran pickled or salted vegetables (e.g. carrots, daikon or potatoes) and fish (e.g. salmon, gadid or Arabesque greenling) boiled in a salty broth (sake lees is sometimes added) (Hokkaido local specialty dish) ➜ 糠漬け【ぬかづけ】

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

noun:

• Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• in drops (e.g. of rain) - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun / adverbial noun:

• a lot; lots; plenty; many; a large number; much; a great deal; a good deal
• enough; sufficient

suffix noun:

• enough; too many; too much - after a noun; usu. read as だくさん ➜ 沢山【だくさん】

noun:

• a kick; mounting a bar with a kick

noun:

• northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

noun / ~する noun:

• reorganize an enterprise and weed out redundant workers; reorganize an industry and weed out redudant enterprises - four character idiom

noun:

• the principle (philosophy) of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not" - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to get burned and stuck on (e.g. rice in a pan)
• to become uncollectable (e.g. debt or loan); to become irrecoverable

noun:

• to remain unchanged (e.g. stock market)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be renewed; to change ［改まる］
• to be improved; to be reformed; to be revised; to be corrected ［改まる］
• to stand on ceremony; to be formal ［改まる］
• to take a turn for the worse (of an illness); to take a serious turn

noun:

• water and moon
• the moon reflected on the water
• pit of the stomach; solar plexus ➜ 水落

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hang (a curtain); to droop (a tail); to lower (a blind)

noun:

• Yamato; ancient province corresponding to modern-day Nara Prefecture
• (ancient) Japan

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• Japanese ➜ 大和絵・大和魂

noun:

• pillow word (decorative word used prefixally in classical Japanese literature)
• preface; introduction