noun:

• eating the first meal of soft rice (himeii) after the traditional hard rice of New Year (kowaii) ➜ 強飯・姫飯
• first intercourse of the New Year
• loss of virginity; loss of maidenhead - slang

noun:

• extraordinary Diet session; extraordinary session of the Diet; session of the Diet convoked by the Cabinet by need or house request

noun:

• extraordinary Diet session; extraordinary session of the Diet; session of the Diet convoked by the Cabinet by need or house request ➜ 臨時国会

noun:

• bamboo dealer; person selling bamboo or articles made of bamboo
• house made of bamboo

noun:

• market price
• speculation (e.g. on stocks)
• reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation; esteem

noun:

• word of mouth
• comment on an Internet forum or web page

noun:

• exposing fully; uncovering completely; being in full view; putting on display; not disguising

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• outspoken; arguing (heatedly) what one believes in; insisting on something without restraint - four character idiom

noun:

• Bon festival; Feast of Lanterns; Buddhist ceremony held on July 15; ullambana - four character idiom ➜ うらぼん・お盆

noun / ~する noun:

• fasting; abstinence; confinement to one's house on an unlucky day

noun:

• kakekotoba; pivot word; play on words (esp. in poetry); pun

noun:

• cards with words or phrases written on them, used in Japanese karuta games ➜ 取り札

expression:

• on such good terms as to know what each other is thinking - apparently from 通過の仲 - idiom

noun:

• newline character (either or both of CR and LF depending on system) - IT term

noun:

• Shuten-dōji; mythical Japanese oni (demon) who lived on Mt. Ōe

noun:

• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; CITES

noun:

• raigan (Omphalia lapidescens); parasitic fungus which grows on bamboo, used in Chinese medicine

noun:

• fashion not created by designers but based on street styles - From English "anonymous fashion"

noun:

• rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day) - Food term

noun:

• hot rice served with tenkasu and tempura dipping sauce on top - Food term ➜ 天かす

noun:

• playing on equal terms; having no handicap for either player - Shōgi term ➜ 平手
• being evenly matched - Shōgi term

noun:

• rat guard; disk of wood on storehouse pillars, ropes, etc.

numeric:

• one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); 3.75 milligrams (one-thousandth of a monme)

noun:

• old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)

noun:

• Wu; region in China, south of the lower Yangtze
• Wu; Southern Wu; kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era (902-937)
• Wu; Eastern Wu; Sun Wu; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era (222-280) ➜ 三国【さんごく】
• Wu; kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn era (11th c. - 473 BCE)

noun:

• small child; pipsqueak; small fry; small, cute versions of manga, anime, etc. characters, typically with oversized heads - sensitive
• short person; midget; dwarf - sensitive
• small animal; runt

prefix:

• worn down (pencil, etc.)