personal bankruptcy caused by excessive card-loan borrowing
artistic swimming; synchronized swimming
revolving payments; payment via multiple installments
Nichiren sect; Tendai sect; Lotus Sutra
cassava (Manihot esculenta); manioc; tapioca
nutmeg (soccer); hitting a ball through the legs (e.g. in tennis)
women's writing; literature written by women
water plant; aquatic plant; waterweed; hydrophyte
year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat); becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience
repeated events (meetings, drinking sessions, etc.); series of events; streak; dealer continuing as dealer and east after winning; dealer keep
to give a cold (to someone)
revolving payments; payment via multiple installments
one step higher; one better; cut above; one up
head banging (esp. in popular music)
technical score (in figure skating, etc.)
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
assistant (esp. in show business or sumo); attendant; chaperon
grant; bestowal; giving something to someone of low social standing (by a person of very high social standing)
child abduction; kidnapping of a minor
value analysis; volt-ampere; visual aid
working consecutive days (without a holiday)
Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600)
unfathomable; inestimable; immeasurable
bone conduction; osteophony
chocolate-vine (Akebia quinata); fiveleaf; fiveleaf akebia; fruit of the akebia
osechi; food eaten during the New Year's Holidays