noun:

• shift away from rice consumption; consumers losing interest in eating rice

noun:

• words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts ➜ 放送禁止用語

noun:

• wedge marks in stone (usu. remaining from stone-splitting, now used for visual effect) - obscure term ➜ 矢【や】

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

noun:

• lodging; inn; hotel
• house; home; dwelling
• home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

noun:

• meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; effect
• goal; intent; object; aim; point ［趣旨］

noun / ~する noun:

• making necessary arrangements; laying the groundwork
• digging around the roots of a tree (before transplanting)

suffix:

• through; throughout; in the course of
• all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• fastidiousness; enthusiasm for one thing; meticulousness; monomania; obsession
• susceptibility for a stiffening of the shoulders

noun:

• reader (person)
• person who reads the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 取り手
• composer (of a poem) - also written as 詠み手 ➜ 詠み手【よみて】

noun:

• grave marker; gravestone; headstone
• writing on a headstone (name, date of death, etc.) ［ぼひょう］

noun / ~する noun:

• (historical, in China) abdication by an emperor in favor (favour) of a more virtuous successor

noun:

• Jim Crow; discrim. term for a black person - sensitive
• segregation of blacks; discrimination against blacks

noun:

• under the table; word of respect added to the addressee's name on a letter

noun:

• multi-tenant building; building containing a mixture of businesses, shops and residential apartments

godan ~す verb:

• to gnaw at and scatter around; to start a lot of things without finishing any

noun:

• day-by-day record of a patient's condition; diary written while ill in bed

noun:

• paper, cloth, wood, etc. representation of a sacred object
• paper doll used in purification rites - Shintō term

noun:

• widow's peak; hairline that grows to a point in the middle of the forehead

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to look out over (far into the distance); to command a view of

noun:

• salt
• crest of a wave; flowerlike patterns on waves in the Japan Sea in winter

noun:

• rule allowing the clear winner of a bout to touch down first to avoid injury - Sumo term

noun:

• (a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom) - four character idiom

noun:

• shrine
• palace; imperial residence
• member of the imperial family - honorific language
• headboard (on a bed); headstand
• temple - archaism

noun:

• type of leather belt worn with ceremonial court dress and decorated with a rhinoceros horn - obscure term