temple bell rung 108 times on New Year's Eve
sowing beans (or pulses, etc.); scattering parched beans (to drive out evil spirits)
surroundings; circumference
shooting star; falling star; meteor; blaze (wide white stripe down the face of a horse)
human leukocyte antigen; HLA
encircled flower seal (equiv. of a gold star awarded to children for good work at school)
blowing repeatedly (e.g. to cool something down); huffing and puffing; puffing and panting; struggling (with work, studies, etc.); having difficulty
basket clam (Corbiculidae spp.); freshwater clam; freshwater mussel
wetting; love affair; lover
cod roe (roe of any fish from family Gadidae, esp. salted walleye pollack roe)
big quarrel; huge fight; big row
(free) sample; promotional gift
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
rice bowl; tea cup; teacup
tens of thousands of years
strained back; slipped disk; lumbosacral strain
French bread (esp. baguette); breadstick
poo; poop; doo-doo; caca; whoopsie
intimate friend; close friend; bosom buddy; chum
chikuwa; tube-shaped fish paste cake
remittance; sending money
just past noon; afternoon
konnyaku (Amorphophallus konjac); konjac; devil's tongue; konnyaku jelly; konjac jelly; devil's tongue jelly
cosmos; common cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch
separate; scattered; apart
to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon
thirty-first day of the month; thirty-one days