noun:

• reed (in a loom); yarn guide

noun:

• (in a) rough Tokyo dialect; (having a) crude mouth; vulgar language; crude speaking ➜ べらんめえ調

noun:

• Ming & Xing-era Chinese music (as popularized in Japan before the First Sino-Japanese war) ➜ 清楽・明楽

noun:

• sorcerer (in ancient China); (hermit) wizard - archaism

noun:

• big-character poster (in China); large print wall newspaper ➜ 壁新聞【かべしんぶん】

noun:

• balance wheel (in a watch); balance

noun:

• "day of the ghost" (an extremely auspicious day on the lunar calendar for everything but weddings) ➜ 暦注

noun:

• single kanji dictionary (usu. for use in an Input Method)

noun:

• blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific) ➜ 妻黒

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東

noun:

• young underground market (the underground economy in goods and services, involving lots of barter and buying and selling of secondhand goods)

noun:

• giant stride (e.g. in amusement park)

noun:

• dripper (e.g. for making coffee)

noun:

• liberty (of a stone in go)

noun:

• excess fare (for going too far)

noun:

• Japanese-Spanish (gen. for translations and dictionaries); Japan-Spain (e.g. intercountry trade and relations)

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun:

• flying hill (in ski jumping or ski flying); FH - Sports term

noun:

• main reinforcement (in a reinforced-concrete structure)

noun:

• group delay (in fibre optics, fiber optics)

noun:

• kuruma prawn (esp. a small one, i.e. less than 10 cm in length) ➜ 車海老

noun:

• lace monitor (Varanus varius, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in eastern Australia); lace goanna ➜ レースモニター

noun:

• health care (e.g. for the aged); health management; health maintenance

noun:

• string instrument (esp. in gagaku); stringed instrument ➜ 雅楽