noun:

• ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole (played at sports festivals)

noun / ~する noun:

• dharma transmission (formal confirmation of a student's awakening by his master) - Buddhism term
• certificate of proficiency (in flower arrangement, etc.)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• one point

noun:

• stitched ornament; small needlepoint design
• relief pitcher brought in to face one batter - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ ワンポイントリリーフ

noun:

• narezushi; fermented sushi (pickled in brine rather than vinegar), precursor of modern sushi

noun:

• light spot (e.g. blip on radar); always-on pixel (as a defect in LCD screens, etc.); calescence point

noun:

• form of torture in which the victim kneels on triangular wedges and stone slabs are placed on their lap

noun:

• var. of eggplant (Solanum melongena) which can be eaten raw
• pickled (in rice bran or vinegar) (whole) eggplant

noun:

• blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific)

noun / ~の noun:

• black tip - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• smalleye hammerhead (Sphyrna tudes, species of hammerhead shark common in the western Atlantic)

~と adverb:

• up and down; lightly; nimbly; moving in small leaps as a frog or rabbit - onomatopoeia
• casually; (strolling about) without a care - onomatopoeia ➜ ひょいひょい

noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures

noun:

• Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands

noun:

• kanji reading that has not been approved by the government (and is not to be taught in public schools)

noun:

• initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages
• initial shock (of an earthquake); preliminary tremor

noun:

• Tilapia (large genus of cichlid fish in the Cichlidae family endemic to Africa and the Middle East)

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)

noun:

• hostess bar recruiters, etc. dressed in black suits - colloquialism
• young delinquents wearing black at Aomori's Nebuta festival - colloquialism ➜ ねぶた

noun:

• eta (Edo period) ➜ 穢多
• administrator of a temple - Buddhism term ➜ 座主・別当・検校
• low-ranking government official with a comparatively high salary (in medieval China) - archaism

noun:

• territory of a stall vendor
• spot on a farm where the harvest would be put in order (Edo period) - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on
• to bear (guilt, etc.)

noun:

• bout (in sports, etc.); match - oft. 取組 when in ref. to sumo
• effort; initiative; dealing with; grappling with; wrestling with

noun / ~する noun:

• ignoring; looking the other way; letting pass - colloquialism - From English "through"
• passing through; going through

noun:

• ball hit through net (in tennis) - Sports term

expression / noun:

• clincher; pick-up line; honeyed phrase; telling phrase; phrase that brings someone around, esp. in personal relationships ➜ 口説き文句【くどきもんく】

noun / ~する noun:

• addition and deletion; taking out and putting in; plugging and unplugging
• making do; getting by; managing ➜ 抜き差しならない・抜き差しならぬ

noun:

• binding particle (i.e. specifying an expression later in the sentence); linking particle; connecting particle - Linguistics term