noun:

• sociolect spoken in the Tokyo area by gyaru - Linguistics term ➜ ギャル

noun:

• common variety of women's kimono sash

noun:

• instruction in martial arts - four character idiom

noun:

• udon with deep-fried tofu

noun:

• rivalry over winning the right to host an event; competition to lure (attract, invite) (institutions, manufacturing facilities, foreign tourists, etc.) to a locality - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to leave a house in bad shape

expression:

• with the whole family

noun:

• Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links - Buddhism term

expression:

• the child is father to the man; the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100 [literal]

expression:

• in an easy-to-understand manner; in a very kind and detailed way

expression:

• together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

noun:

• concept that all things and phenomena reflect the truth - Buddhism term

noun:

• hot rice served with tenkasu and tempura dipping sauce on top - Food term ➜ 天かす

noun:

• child in elementary or middle school
• go-between; intermediary; middleman; mediator; intercessor ➜ 仲人【ちゅうにん】
• person of middling talent, strength, etc. ［ちゅうじん］ - archaism
• middle-class person; bourgeois person ［ちゅうじん］ - archaism

noun:

• Japanese common squid; Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus) ➜ 鯣烏賊
• golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta) ➜ 甲烏賊
• Japanese spineless cuttlefish (Sepiella japonica) ➜ 尻焼烏賊

adverbial noun:

• in the future; from now on; henceforth; hereafter - archaism

noun:

• top of the shoulders; tip of the shoulder; collar ➜ 肩先

noun:

• cloth dyed in a dappled pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子絞り
• pattern of white spots; dapples - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子斑
• mochi containing red bean paste - abbreviation ➜ 鹿の子餅
• fawn - original meaning - archaism ➜ 鹿【か】

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• (openable) panel in a door

noun:

• the end of the Cold War

noun:

• the sixteen arhats - Buddhism term

noun:

• palace kitchen in which final preparations to the imperial family's meals (e.g. reheating) were made (Heian period)
• kitchen (in a noble's manor)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in high spirits

noun:

• proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list