留

French knot

student studying abroad at government expense

Abbreviation

fractional distillation; fractionation

reservation of Japanese nationality (procedure used with children born outside Japan)

temporary resident

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Willow Barrel (collection of Edo-period senryu); Haifu Yanagidaru

striped cotton fabric imported from Sao Tome, also copied in Japan

Special Permission to Stay in Japan; residence status that can be granted to illegal immigrants or overstayers

chock; wheel stop; parking curb

linchpin

embargo (on a ship); arrest (of a ship); preventing a ship from passing or leaving a port

ornamental clip (hair, obi, etc.)

Food, cooking

last soup served in a kaiseki course (often miso soup)

to keep (a student) back (to repeat a grade)

delivery of freight to a station

Proverb

he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it

hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower)

mooring facilities; moorage; berthing facility; berth

triangular hairpin

Shinto

absence of the gods from their shrines in October (while they are visiting the Grand Shrine of Izumo)

Certificate of Eligibility for Resident Status

fractional distillation

Proverb

he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name

continued fever; sustained fever

distillation column; distilling column