expression:

• speaking of ➜ と言えば

noun:

• throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 餅まき

noun:

• state of national emergency

noun:

• tincture of camphor

noun / ~する noun:

• tucking up the hem of one's garments ➜ 尻端折り

suffix:

• country of origin; ethnicity

noun:

• registration of livestock

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pluck the strings of an instrument; to strum

noun:

• use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to signal the winner of a match (by the referee raising his fan towards the winner) - Sumo term
• to declare someone the winner (of a competition)

noun:

• list of passengers; passenger manifest; passenger register

noun:

• poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters - four character idiom

noun / adverbial noun:

• flash of lightning; flash of a sword; brandishing a sword - four character idiom

noun:

• the economic boom of the mid-1950s - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses - Sumo term

noun:

• fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe) ➜ 本生り
• weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man; pallid man

noun:

• collection of folk stories

noun:

• code of conduct; code of practice
• action program; plan of action

noun:

• nonfulfillment of a contract; contractual non-performance; breach of contract - Law term

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to take care of ➜ お世話をする

noun:

• master of the rice field; chief farmer - abbreviation - archaism
• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) ➜ 田長鳥

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make a fool of someone

noun:

• Hare of Inaba (Japanese myth)

noun:

• bones of the hand

noun:

• mound made in the image of Mt. Fuji ➜ 富士講