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'taru' adjective

free and easy; frank; openhearted; relaxed

shoptalk; matters incomprehensible to outsiders

inside joke; private joke

to blow down (fruit)

Shogi

game of shogi in which the stronger player plays without the bishop

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

ash tray; ash pit

moated settlement (Yayoi period)

years since produced (of cars)

to scrape off; to scrape away

Archaic

to chop off (someone's head)

success or failure (in examinations)

Martial arts

body drop (judo); body throw

being satisfied; being convinced; understanding

Sumo

twist down

Idiomatic expression

person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree

village community

cannot understand; doesn't make sense; unconvincing; hard to swallow; doesn't ring true

three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing)

to cease being possessed (by the spirit of a fox); to be released from the grasp of a fox; to be exorcised from a fox

Proverb

the autumn sun sets as quickly as a bucket dropping into a well

Archaic

Zen monk's waistcoat (short, informal kasaya)

ring (usu. made of ivory) attached to this waistcoat

netsuke; item attached to a netsuke

cutting off the edges (printing, sewing, cooking, etc.)

snippets; trimmings; cuttings

charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame

In road surface marking

slow down; slow

to omit to say; to forget to mention; to leave unsaid