noun:

• great pairing (e.g. of food and wine) - Food term - From French "mariage"
• marriage; wedded life; wedding; wedding ceremony

noun:

• growth hormone (esp. somatotropin in animals and auxins in plants)

noun:

• samurai and commoners
• normal people (as opposed to people of a high social standing)

suffix:

• suffix indicating room size (following a number of tatami mats and a counter)

noun:

• road-rail vehicle (vehicle which can travel both on railroad tracks and normal roads)

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a broadly concave tile and near-rectangular decorative cap) ➜ 平瓦・瓦当

noun:

• thick roof shingle (1-3 cm thick, used for shrine buildings and noh stages) ➜ 栩葺き

noun:

• skillful tanka poet ➜ 短歌
• official in charge of court poetry and music (ritsuryo period)
• poet

noun:

• roasted barley flour ➜ 麦こがし
• parched flour with various ingredients added and drunk in hot water

noun:

• miso mixed with minced great burdock, ginger, etc. and sweetened with sugar ➜ 味噌

noun:

• having only tiles of one suit and no honor tiles (yaku) - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 清一色

noun:

• scaffolding and temporary roof placed around a shrine, temple, etc. undergoing repair; protective scaffolding

noun:

• thick toast with honey (and often with fruit, icecream, etc.) - From English "honey toast"

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place - idiom

noun:

• hanakkori (Brassica napus cv. Hanakkori); hybrid of choy sum and broccoli invented in Yamaguchi prefecture

noun:

• crawling on all fours; getting on one's hands and knees; falling flat ➜ 四つん這い【よつんばい】

noun:

• challenging members of a dojo to a fight and demanding money upon winning

noun:

• millions and millions

noun:

• again and again - four character idiom

~の noun / ~と adverb:

• higher and higher

noun / ~する noun:

• acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
• handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
• handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

noun:

• one's youth; one's youthful days (years); the flower of one's youth; the springtime of one's life - four character idiom

noun:

• center; centre; middle; heart
• Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures) - abbreviation ➜ 中部地方

noun:

• gyoza; pot sticker; crescent-shaped pan-fried dumplings stuffed with minced pork and vegetables - Food term - From Chinese "jiǎozi"

~の noun / noun:

• best; extra-fine; superfine; unequalled

adverbial noun:

• exceptionally; extraordinarily; by far

noun:

• jumping and slashing (e.g. at an enemy) - orig. meaning