securing financial resources
(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence
frowning on; looking on with scorn; showing disapproval
alcohol content (usu. expressed per cent)
refusing to allow a passenger on board a train or into a bus or taxi
beside a nobleman; close aid (of a nobleman, etc.); place where a high ranking person resides; one's own city (of a shogun, lord, etc.); place under one's direct control; one's own turf
fake; sham; counterfeit; impostor; cheat; hypocrite
acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back); handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order); handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)
broiled eel served over rice in a lacquered box; broiled eel and rice served in two separate stacked boxes, with eel in top box and rice in bottom box
to make an example of; to make a victim of; to hold up somebody (something) to ridicule; to pierce with a spear
internal (domestic) affairs
sudden, wide-spread drop in prices
that's too bad; too bad for you!
the husband of one's younger sister
wood chip; splinter; thin shingles
aburaage; thin deep-fried slices of tofu
unable to compete with; not able to make a dent in (e.g. a problem); not able to get a solid hit in (e.g. in a fight); hard to chew
second part (of three); second volume; middle part; novelette; novella; short novel
a disgrace (to a whole group of people)
crushed flat; flattened; flat-chested girl; sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something
ice cream cup; icecream cup
family bath (in a ryokan, etc.)
influential; powerful; popular; prosperous; doing well
breech presentation (feet or buttocks-first birth); breech delivery; breech birth
to beat someone by ganging up on them
to come to power; to assume the reins of government
obsession with cleanliness; fastidiousness
hills and fields; countryside
touching a wrong card (in karuta); buzzing too early (in a quiz); making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant)
treating (someone) like an object
loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce
to be manageable; to be able to handle
posting (e.g. a notice); displaying; putting up