noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

expression:

• good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile - from Chinese 打開笑門福自來 - four character idiom ➜ 笑う門には福来る

noun:

• mimicking an animal's call (esp. a bird); imitating a call

suffix noun:

• suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)

noun:

• officiating monk

noun:

• report of late arrival; tardy slip

noun:

• any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits); wagtail; longclaw

noun:

• word used after an addressee's name in a formal letter - female language - polite language ➜ 脇付

noun:

• first eastern wind of the year; first eastern wind of the spring

noun:

• group of galaxies

noun:

• small mochi placed on top of a big mochi
• two things heaped together

ichidan verb:

• to make an appeal; to urge

noun:

• law of value

noun:

• number of nights

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to engrave an inscription

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers; rulers apprehending the views of those they govern - archaism

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to inject a unit of dope

noun:

• tiles used to cover nail holes in cypress bark roofing for the purpose of waterproofing

noun:

• an unsparing official

noun:

• wall or bank of clouds

noun:

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

noun:

• way of affixing something
• way of recording something (to a logbook, etc.)

expression:

• waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; When the sky falls, we shall catch larks - four character idiom

noun:

• special version of a product with features that allow it to be used for evaluation - abbreviation - From English "evaluation chip"

noun:

• giving cries of encouragement at a critical moment - four character idiom