noun:

• annual religious ceremony that occurs in Tenmangu where worshippers come to exchange their wooden bullfinch birds ➜ 天満宮

noun:

• continuously burning light (e.g. at a Buddhist altar)
• roadside lamp that stays lit all night

noun:

• single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts - e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

expression:

• having been told something so often that one is fed up with it - abbreviation - idiom - colloquialism ➜ 耳に胼胝ができる【みみにたこができる】

noun:

• sport that requires a strong willpower and hunger for success (esp. boxing) - From English "hungry sports"

expression:

• well then ...
• in that situation; in which case

auxiliary:

• should; must; that one ought to; to be done - suf. to verbs
• -able - passive ending
• probably; likely

expression:

• it is not possible (to, that); there is no such thing as

noun:

• outlet (store that sells seconds, discontinued lines, etc.)
• electrical outlet ➜ コンセント

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to win every battle (that is fought); to be ever victorious - obscure term

noun:

• particle that attaches to a phrase and acts on the whole phrase - e.g. the の of のです ➜ のです

noun / ~の noun:

• hot water or liquid (especially that below the surface of the earth)

conjunction:

• in the event that it did not (or does not) exist; without

expression:

• as expected; just as I thought it would; that is exactly why... - archaism

noun:

• word root (the smallest portion of a larger word that holds meaning)

noun:

• indehiscent fruit; fruit that doesn't open when ripe, e.g. apricot

conjunction:

• without; in the event that it did not (or does not) exist ➜ 無くしては

expression:

• it's tactless to state the obvious; that's best left unsaid

expression:

• he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin - proverb

noun:

• revitalizing treatment that stimulates the organs or the meridians (in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• the first time in the year that one wears an awase kimono ➜ 袷

noun:

• divination that predicts the events of the whole year (esp. concerning crops) ➜ 年見

noun:

• independent city; city that is not part of another local government entity

noun:

• insoluble azo dye that is cooled with ice during dyeing; ice color

noun:

• discarding a tile that becomes another player's winning tile - Mahjong term ➜ 振り込み