noun:

• isolated fall of a security or currency in an otherwise strong market

noun:

• betting ticket with a payout of at least 100 times (horse racing) ➜ 馬券【ばけん】

noun:

• death not caused by a violent crime (excl. dying of natural causes) ➜ 犯罪死

noun:

• desire for a fire that comes with the cold of autumn

noun:

• taking food with one's chopsticks upside down (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• mythological growth (tumour) that takes the shape of a human face

noun:

• client (of a builder, etc.); person having something built or constructed

noun:

• artistic centrepiece (centerpiece); main component of a display - From English "main objet"

noun:

• operation to win over someone by using a tactic of gentle persuasion

noun:

• furigana where kana is associated each character of a compound ➜ モノルビ

noun / ~する noun:

• preservation of obsolete machinery in a functional condition (e.g. train engines) ➜ 静態保存

noun:

• verbal command (in dog training) ➜ 視符
• sound part of a semasio-phonetic kanji ➜ 形声文字【けいせいもじ】

noun:

• peak of a financial bubble (esp. in Japan around 1990)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• thundering; purring; grumbling (e.g. stomach) - onomatopoeia
• something large and heavy starting to roll - onomatopoeia
• scattered about; common; commonplace; all over - onomatopoeia
• idleness; idling about - onomatopoeia
• having a foreign substance in (e.g. one's eye or stomach) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• thunder - children's language - onomatopoeia

expression / ichidan verb:

• to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet)
• to breathe new life into; to provide a potential solution

adverb / ~する noun:

• for a moment; for a minute

adverb:

• for a while; for some time
• for the time being; for now

interjection:

• it's been a long time; long time no see

noun:

• blue dragon ➜ 青竜
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 青竜
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿
• large horse with a bluish-leaden coat
• shape of an old pine tree

noun:

• water offered to God; water drunk before an altar to symbolize the making of a vow
• miracle-working water
• water which gathers in the nodes of bamboo after falling as rain at noon on the 5th day of the 5th month (lunar calendar), thought to be effective when used in medicines

noun:

• imperial palace; shrine - honorific language
• Grand Empress Dowager; Empress Dowager
• woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child
• elderly woman of imperial lineage

noun:

• transferring a shintai in a portable shrine, e.g. to another shrine or to a ceremony - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun / ~の noun:

• number one; first; first place

adverb:

• best; most

noun:

• game; round; bout

adverb:

• as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively ➜ 試しに

noun:

• song (e.g. in noh); piece

noun:

• putting on a knowing air when one only knows the title of the book (play, etc.); pretending to understand the nature of something when one only knows its name - four character idiom

noun:

• historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Emishi
• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) ［えぞ］ ➜ 蝦夷地

noun:

• competent in all fields; jack of all trades; very active in many fields; versatile; all-round; 8 faces and 6 arms [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• one's own flesh and blood; blood relative; kinsman
• flesh and bone; (one's) body