noun:

• mountain-valley winds; mountain and valley breeze

noun:

• home and country
• state; country
• home town

noun / suffix noun:

• kneading; gloss; tempering

noun or verb acting prenominally / noun:

• paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste)

noun:

• parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals - orig. 邌り, usu. お練り - Shintō term ➜ 練り歩く【ねりあるく】・お練り【おねり】

noun:

• essential part; indispensable part; unavoidable part; accompaniment; appendage; accessory
• front and back matter (of a book, magazine, etc.)

noun:

• single crime consisting of multiple independent crimes (i.e. robbery, which consists of theft and threats or use of violence)

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea); yellow-spotted monitor

noun / expression:

• visual novel; sound novel; interactive game resembling a mixed-media novel and featuring mostly static graphics - From English "novel game" ➜ サウンドノベル

noun / expression:

• sound novel; visual novel; interactive game resembling a mixed-media novel and featuring mostly static graphics

noun:

• expert; learned person
• doctor; PhD; Dr. - colloquialism ➜ 博士【はくし】
• instructor at the imperial court (ritsuryo period)
• pitch and length marks (to accompany a Buddhist liturgical chant, etc.) ➜ 墨譜

noun:

• black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan, and afterwards spreading to the common people

noun:

• agency for employing servants and arranging marriages (Edo period); mediator; go-between ➜ 口入れ屋
• flattery; flatterer
• Keian era (1648.2.15-1652.9.18) ［慶安］

noun:

• jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)

noun:

• (young) man adhering to a masculine version of gyaru fashion (usually marked by hair dyed brown or blond, gaudy clothes and accessories) ➜ ギャル

expression:

• something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this); eye drops from the second floor [literal] - idiom

noun:

• kiss and cry; area in an ice rink where figure skaters wait for their marks to be announced - Sports term

noun:

• Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures
• Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)

noun:

• western Japan; Japan west of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line, i.e. the Chūbu region and westward ➜ 糸魚川静岡構造線・東日本

noun:

• bright light
• hope; bright future
• light emanating from a buddha or bodhisattva, symbolizing their wisdom and compassion - Buddhism term

noun:

• scheme in which a man and woman trick another man into a compromising situation for blackmail; badger game

noun / adjectival noun:

• obstinate; stubborn; hard-headed; being incapable of making sound judgments because of a narrow, inflexible and obstinate mentality - four character idiom

noun:

• inconsistency of speech and action; failing to act up to one's words; not practicing what one preaches - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• obstinate; stubborn; hard-headed; pigheaded; incapable of making sound judgements because of a narrow, inflexible and obstinate mentality - four character idiom

noun:

• inner pleat; the raising of fabric up in the middle to marry bottom edges of yukata and kimono

expression:

• missing important things here and there; full of gaps; as if the teeth of a comb were missing [literal]