noun:

• war started or ended with the push of a single 'launch' button - obscure term - From English "button war"

noun:

• loss of a match that is 'called' part way into the game

noun:

• (in China) 8th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A) ➜ 黄鐘【おうしき】・十二律
• sixth lunar month

adverb / ~と adverb:

• clanging (of a bell); jangling; ding-dong - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• continuously; incessantly; one after another; rapidly; plentifully; freely - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• buying a large amount (esp. of collectible items aimed at kids, such as manga) - colloquialism

noun:

• buddha-body within a practitioner (esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• altruistic manifested form of Mahavairocana (New Shingon) ➜ 本地身

noun:

• style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period (often with a military theme)

~と adverb:

• with a snap; (break) cleanly - onomatopoeia ➜ びしっと
• (reject) sternly; flatly
• smartly (e.g. of dressing up well).

noun:

• erection of a pillar by sinking it directly into the ground

noun:

• empathetically putting oneself in the place of a handicapped person - From English "cap handy"

noun:

• long segment of a noh play forming its musical highlight

prefix noun:

• wrong; improper; indecent ➜ 曲者

noun:

• Out-of-Africa theory (positing a recent African origin for modern humans)

noun:

• pair (as part of a winning hand, together with four melds); eyes - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 対子

noun:

• blessing of man; winning with a discard in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• blessing of earth; winning with a self-drawn tile in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• pointing towards somebody or something with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• 17C male hairstyle (shaved forehead, chignon, sideburns thinned to the size of a thread)

noun:

• grilled slices of lotus root, eggplant, etc. with a filling (usu. minced meat) - Food term

noun:

• denied freedom (of how to live one's life); living like a caged bird [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• imitation of a professional singer, musician, dancer, etc. usu. by an amateur - slang - abbreviation ➜ 完全コピー

noun:

• woven mat tied around a plant to prevent damage from the weight of snow

counter:

• double; unit used in calculation of a hand's score - Mahjong term

noun:

• category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece ➜ 能・天狗

noun:

• mark on a stage, movie set, etc. showing the position of people or props ➜ バミる

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese) ➜ 慣用音