noun:

• Canthigaster; genus of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to nock (an arrow); to fix an arrow to the string

noun:

• indigo wax; cylindrical shape made from indigo dye froth, often by boiling the froth with caustic soda, used for coloring paintings, etc.

godan ~む verb:

• to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor

noun:

• monkey booze; sake-like liquid produced by the fermentation of fruits left by monkeys in tree caches or hollows in rocks

noun:

• musette; musical instrument of the bagpipe family - From French

noun:

• aiming for laughs; trying to make people laugh; playing to the crowd; crowd-pleaser ➜ ウケを狙う

expression / ~す verb (precursor to modern する):

• to be unable to make up one's mind; to sit on the fence ➜ 首鼠両端【しゅそりょうたん】

noun:

• (hot) stove league; trading of players in the off-season - Baseball term

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to despair of; to see the vanity of

noun:

• nub; core of the issue

noun / ~する noun:

• emperor's reply; reply to the emperor

noun:

• gas pedal; pressing one's foot on the genitals of a supine person while pulling on their feet

noun:

• street-level store; shop facing the street

noun:

• art lover; lover of the arts

suffix / noun:

• having experienced ~; having had the experience (of)

noun:

• Lemur; genus containing the ring-tailed lemur

noun:

• kana literature; works written in kana in the Heian period - four character idiom

noun:

• Microscopium (constellation); the Microscope - Astronomy term

noun:

• lower brain; base of the brain

noun:

• Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth - four character idiom

expression:

• all around; as far as the eye can see

noun:

• property rights; the right to own property

expression / adverb:

• as a matter of fact; to tell the truth ➜ 実を言えば

expression:

• wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog [literal] - idiom