noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun:

• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

noun / ~する noun:

• airing of clothes, hanging scrolls, etc. (to prevent damage from insects and mould) ➜ 土用干し

noun:

• palisade; stakes planted at irregular angles and intervals as a defensive barrier

noun:

• hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry

noun:

• facility that serves meals and provides rooms for short-stay or overnight guests - abbreviation - From English "restaurant hotel" ➜ レストランホテル

noun:

• understanding and acceptance; spiritual awakening; a heart that understands truth; (feeling of) resignation

noun:

• perception through the six senses (of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and consciousness) - four character idiom

noun:

• high mountains and running water; the beauty of nature - four character idiom
• beautifully (skillfully) played music

noun:

• being excused from various levies and taxes during the age of militarist government - four character idiom

noun:

• elegant appreciation of nature through artistic pursuits such as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• (with) unkempt hair and dirty face; being indifferent to one's personal appearance - four character idiom

noun:

• style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof

noun:

• ryūsha; spherical part of a pagoda finial between the hōju and suien

noun:

• beautiful white-skinned lady (usu. wrt to freckle removal and skin whitening products)

adjectival noun:

• restless; on edge (and unable to concentrate); distracted

adverb:

• for some reason - of an emotional or psychological state ➜ そぞろに

noun:

• crab meat mixed with vegetables and egg yolk, steamed inside its shell

noun:

• Vaishya; Vaisya (member of India's merchant-and-farmer caste)

noun:

• condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile) - Food term

noun / ~する noun:

• ding-dong dash (ringing a doorbell and running away)

noun:

• legless lizard (esp. Anguidae spp., incl. glass lizards and slow worms)

noun:

• Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo ➜ 菩薩

noun:

• Great Northern War (Sweden vs. Russia, Poland, Denmark, Saxony and Hanover: 1700-1721)

expression:

• wives and tatami are best when they're new

noun:

• waiting for the sun (traditional all-night event of worship and neighbourhood fellowship) ➜ 月待ち【つきまち】