nail (e.g. fingernail, toenail)
salvation by one's own efforts; self-reliance
having very little difference between one another; being much of a muchness; being more or less the same; pointless competition (between two equally unimpressive parties); pissing contest
sticky; gluey; gummy; stickiness; something sticky
to sweep away; to sweep out
original intention; initial resolution
lying face down; lying on one's face; lying prostrate
rapid progress; great strides
strained lees (e.g. sake, tofu); draff
sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka); red salmon
reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
sweet bread with three different fillings
not wearing a mask (in kendo, noh, etc.); sober face; sobriety; (arch.) face with no make-up; (arch.) unpainted face
Japan Broadcasting Corporation; Nihon Housou Kyoukai; NHK
toilet sandals; bathroom sandals
matters (issues) that need be reconsidered (reflected on)
astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment
cold and warm; low temperature
practice of buying a bottle of spirits at a bar which is then kept there for the customer
duple meter; duple metre; duple time
blue line; area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line) (1940s-1956); non-legal public waterway (denoted by a blue line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)
dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds; kanji dictionary
oral proceedings; oral pleadings
drafting (a plan, contract, etc.); drawing up