noun:

• system for showing appreciation to the author of a web-site; virtual applause; web-applause [literal] - sometimes abbr. to 拍手

noun:

• washable chopsticks carried in a case (to be used in place of disposable chopsticks)

suffix noun:

• intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)

adjective:

• easy to get into (e.g. of music, etc.); easily getting into (a certain mood, etc.)

noun:

• realm of a Buddha; Pure Land; paradise - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土
• Buddhist country; land where Buddha has appeared to spread his teachings - Buddhism term

noun:

• thrice moving from house to house
• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning - abbreviation ➜ 三遷の教え

noun:

• banishment (to a somewhat distant province); middle-degree punishment of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• Little New Year (festival held on January 15th); 14th-16th days of the first month of the year; Koshogatsu

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• being majestic; with great pomp and circumstance; with an imposing air - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 意味深長

expression:

• as is usual with; in common with ➜ 御多分

noun:

• chunky mochi made with half-polished rice, stuffed with red bean paste ➜ 餅【もち】・餡

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to find fault; to harp on; to reprove
• to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with somebody)

noun:

• bath; bathtub ➜ お風呂
• bathroom; bathhouse
• room for drying lacquerware
• base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)

noun:

• adult (esp. person 20 years old or over); grownup

noun / ~する noun:

• becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman) ➜ 新成人

noun / ~する noun:

• rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power; gathering strength

noun:

• used women's clothing such as bloomers and high-school sailor-suit uniforms (esp. as a source of sexual arousal) - from ブルマー and セーラー服 - slang

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit)
• one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men

noun:

• kasaya; monk's stole - Buddhism term
• wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) - abbreviation ➜ 袈裟懸け

expression:

• even the patience of a saint eventually runs out; (if you touch) the Buddha's face three times (he will get annoyed) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• special seats and standing-only space in the galley for people who only intend to see one act of a kabuki play

expression:

• actio libera in causa; manufacturing the conditions of one's own defence (e.g. getting drunk in order to commit a crime)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to dig down; to delve into; to get to the bottom of (a matter); to investigate further

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of