noun:

• keirin; cycle racing event, usu. 2km with a paced start and sprint finish - ケイリン is often used for the sport, and 競輪 is often used in the context of gambling

noun / suffix noun:

• feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province; clan

particle:

• if ... then; when
• and - often ...も...ば...も...
• why don't you...?
• the more (one does something) - often ...ば...ほど
• because; since - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• being liberated from earthly desires and the woes of man; (reaching) nirvana; moksha; mukti

noun / adjectival noun:

• regret

noun:

• flesh, blood vessels and fat from around chicken heart, usu. served as yakitori

noun / ~する noun:

• rivalry; competition; antagonism; struggle for supremacy
• rising and falling (of a bird) ［けっこう］

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• splashing (water) - onomatopoeia
• chubby (and cute); plump ［ぽちゃぽちゃ］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• macaron (a French pastry made from egg whites and almond powder); macaroon - From French

noun:

• Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water - Buddhism term

expression:

• currying favour (favor); brown-nosing; bootlicking; sucking pus from carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids (haemorrhoids) [literal]

noun:

• true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)

noun / ~する noun:

• ranging over or scouting out a territory; searching far and wide (for); reading extensively

noun:

• women's obi with a different colour on each side (originally black and white)

noun:

• distal pronoun (indicating distance from both speaker and listener, i.e. are, asoko, achira) - Linguistics term

noun:

• sirenian (any aquatic mammal of order Sirenia, incl. manatees, and dugongs); sea cow

noun:

• geisha; Japanese singing and dancing girl
• dressed-up beautiful woman

noun:

• powdered green tea (steamed and dried before being stone-ground) ➜ 抹茶

noun:

• beshimi; noh mask with a slanted mouth, bulging eyes and large nostrils

noun / ~する noun:

• conjectures and surmises; speculation; giving one's imagination full play without any ground - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• a sense of release (as if one had wings and were riding on air) - four character idiom

noun:

• combined race (skiing event with cross country and ski jumping)

noun:

• (Chinese-style) almond jelly; dessert of powdered and jellied apricot kernels with fruit

noun:

• depressing something and turning it while still depressed (i.e. gas stopper, spark plug)

noun:

• mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed)