noun:

• two locks (e.g. on bicycles)
• double lock (e.g. on door)

noun:

• sculpin (any fish of family Cottidae, incl. the bullheads and the miller's-thumb)
• Japanese fluvial sculpin (Cottus pollux)

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things
• starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto)
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

noun:

• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month)

noun:

• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month) - Buddhism term ➜ 涅槃会

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to turn on; to switch on; to light up ➜ 付ける【つける】

noun:

• (on the) road; (on the) way; (in the) street

noun:

• performing solo (by oneself); having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled) - four character idiom

noun:

• the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha) - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)

noun / ~する noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends) ➜ 煙管乗り

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to record; to bring up (a matter); to serve (food); to send some on out - Kyōto dialect

noun / ~の noun:

• center; centre; middle; heart; core; focus; pivot; emphasis; balance

suffix:

• -centered; -centred; -focussed; -oriented; centered on; focussed on

noun / ~する noun:

• busying oneself about (something); being on the move; bestirring oneself; on the go; taking an active interest - four character idiom

noun:

• wrap towel; towel wrap; large towel with fasteners (e.g. worn for privacy while changing clothes)

noun:

• luminous body like a shooting star
• any bright metal
• sliced fish with the silver skin left on (iwashi, aji, sayori, sanma, kohada, etc.)

noun:

• keirin; cycle racing event, usu. 2km with a paced start and sprint finish - ケイリン is often used for the sport, and 競輪 is often used in the context of gambling

noun:

• onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori) - polite language

noun / ~する noun:

• rivalry; competition; antagonism; struggle for supremacy
• rising and falling (of a bird) ［けっこう］

noun:

• macaron (a French pastry made from egg whites and almond powder); macaroon - From French

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• ranging over or scouting out a territory; searching far and wide (for); reading extensively

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight