noun:

• feel; touch
• impression (of a person)
• most impressive passage; highlight; punch line - orig. meaning
• beginning - colloquialism

noun:

• ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 如是我聞
• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - abbreviation ➜ 十如是

noun:

• left-over flesh on the spine of a fish (esp. tuna) or beef - Food term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• uninteresting; tending to spoil the fun (pleasure) (of); throwing a wet blanket (on) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• (engaging in a round of) mutual criticism; repeated attacks on each other - four character idiom

expression:

• worthless (of a person); somebody who wouldn't be missed if they died - vulgar ➜ くたばる

noun:

• vital point (critical place to make a move in the game of Go)

noun:

• fukubachi; inverted bowl that sits above the base of a pagoda finial

noun:

• short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store

expression:

• (to be pushed) toward the middle (of a crowd) (usually against your will)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• clapping with wooden clappers (to signal the beginning or end of a performance) - obscure term

noun:

• section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)

noun:

• standing (of a legal case, e.g. whether there are grounds to prosecute)

noun:

• Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni) - obscure term - From Latin "Eoanthropus" ➜ ピルトダウン人

noun:

• outline of a solitary fish (as seen through the water when fishing, etc.)

noun:

• (printed) itinerary
• road map; program (for the solution of a political problem, etc.) ➜ ロードマップ

noun:

• kindling; small bits of scrap wood used to fuel a stove - obscure term

noun:

• Test of English as a Foreign Language; TOEFL

noun:

• yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram) ➜ 卦

noun:

• forming by hand (instead of using a potter's wheel, etc.); handwork

noun:

• person who judges which god or spirit has taken possession of a miko - archaism - obscure term - Shintō term

noun:

• patch of plants or shrubs (e.g. on a steep rocky surface)

expression / adjective:

• very messy (of a floor); no space even for one's feet [literal] - idiom

prefix:

• greater (of equal court ranks); upper; senior - also written as 正 - archaism ➜ 従【ひろい】

noun / adjectival noun:

• a great deal; very much ➜ 大いなる・大いに

noun:

• ornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite) ➜ 書院造り