noun:

• going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth - idiom
• itachigokko; Japanese children's game - original meaning

noun:

• pounding down earth around the roots of a tree
• adding short branches of flowers to the base of an arrangement in ikebana

noun:

• leavings of a meal; food scraps; leftovers
• food particles (in one's teeth or mouth); bits of food

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); comfort women [literal] - euphemism ➜ 従軍慰安婦

noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

noun:

• treasure chest (in the story of Urashima Taro); Urashima's casket; Pandora's box
• important secret that is not easily revealed to others

noun:

• wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist); pants worn in such a manner - abbreviation - slang

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• flurry of snow in a clear sky
• winter wind which brings scattered snowflakes or raindrops
• skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever ➜ 風ほろし

noun:

• Okinawan-style stewed pork cubes; boned pork rib meat, cut into 5 cm squares, stewed in awamori, soy, dashi broth, and sugar - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

noun:

• five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner

noun:

• "benefit-your-locality" tax scheme; system in which taxpayers can choose to divert part of their residential tax to a specified local government

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fence; to wall in
• to besiege; to lay siege to
• to play (go, shogi, etc.)

noun:

• stay in hospital; hospital stay

noun:

• land investment; investment in land

godan ~る verb:

• to give in; to give up - from 妥協 - slang

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be superfluous; to be in excess; to be more than enough

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be covered in grass; to be grassy; to be verdant

noun:

• older brother; elder brother - honorific language ➜ お兄さん
• brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship)
• young man; buddy; fella; laddie - vocative

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• in the end (after a long process); finally; after all; at last - esp. 〜したあげく

noun:

• last line (of a renga) ➜ 発句

noun:

• resistance - From French
• popular resistance against a military invasion (especially of that by the French against the Nazis in World War II)

expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

expression:

• Namu Amida Butsu; Hail Amitabha Buddha; Homage to Amida Buddha; prayer for rebirth in Sukhavati, the Pure Land of Amitabha - Buddhism term

noun:

• two-dimensional complex; people more interested in two-dimensional (i.e. anime or manga) girls than real people