noun:

• Arts and Crafts Movement

noun:

• photograph of two people, usu. male and female - From English "two shot"

noun:

• caltrop (spiked device scattered to maim infantry and horses); calthrop; caltrap

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) - four character idiom ➜ 暑い・熱い

expression:

• three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones (Confucius) - four character idiom Antonym: 損者三友【そんしゃさんゆう】

noun:

• couple who only go through the motions of being husband and wife

noun:

• rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce ➜ 雑炊

noun:

• solfa syllables (do, re, mi, fa, sol (soh), la and si (ti))

noun:

• being devoted; spending all one's time and energy on

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ ひっつき虫

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ くっつき虫

noun:

• usu. the drop between collar and bottom hem on kimono, yukata, etc.

noun:

• Semite (speaker of a semitic language, esp. Jews and Arabs)

noun:

• happy-go-lucky fellow; easygoing and indifferent person; pococurante ➜ 極楽蜻蛉

expression / ichidan verb:

• to wear the mantle of (borrowed) authority and misuse it

noun:

• mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried ➜ 欠き餅

noun:

• body drop throw (sweeping the opponent's legs and throwing them forward) - Sumo term

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 六体

noun:

• Kinki region (incl. Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)

noun:

• Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• lofty; soaring; towering; precipitous; high and steep; sharply sticking out; jutting upward

noun:

• (logical) conversion (transposition of subject and predicate to form a new proposition)

noun:

• Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised) ➜ 心学

noun:

• official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)