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eyeball

ball

stand-in

onion (Allium cepa)

New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors)

iridescent colour

corn (Zea mays)

bad character

bargain goods

soap bubble

marble

Saitama (city, prefecture)

beanbags

fireball

good person

drop of water

jewel

honorable death

soroban bead with value one

soroban bead with value five

large ball

year-end marketing campaign (promotion, sales, etc.)

New Year's gift

good scolding

5 yen coin

one-yen coin

10 yen coin

100 yen coin

500 yen coin

50 yen coin

bulldog clip

scolding

eyeball

eyeballs

big and round eyes

ball won in a game of pachinko

beanbag

the Emperor's person or presence

layering

era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi

small ball

front lens element (of a camera lens assembly)

one's own king

entering of a king (into opponent's territory)

tama-ire

geisha apprentice

raindrops

nincompoop

time charge for a geisha

short interest

tossing several items into the air and attempting to catch them all (form of street performance)

you wish!

testicles

fine jewel

Tamagawa University

to lead (someone) by the nose

Spanish broom (Spartium junceum)

ball-shaped

the neck

gems and stones

welcome (new year, new spring, etc.)

fresh onion (not cured to extend its shelf life)

era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi

soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin

street performance in which the performer transforms a specially made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem

glass beads

thread knot (end of the thread tied up to a knot)

soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin

to get scolded severely

to get scolded severely

being held in suspense

to get a good scolding

short account

special feature (e.g. in a magazine)

ping-pong ball

pachinko ball

glass bead

glass marble

abacus bead

squid okonomiyaki

ball-tightening (e.g. when riding downwards on a roller coaster)

kendama

ladle

ornamental ball-shaped scent bag

fit of anger

Chinese dish with fried egg and crab

ladle

egg soup

iceberg lettuce

glass sphere

longevity stone (gemstone that gives its bearer long life)

white gem

falling star

position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer)

billiard table

cultivating knowledge and virtue

opening a hanging ball filled with confetti, streamers, etc. (at a celebratory event)

Edo-period lump of silver used as currency

eye-popping

eye-popping

round

scapegoating

Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959 novel by Heinrich Böll)

special-feature program

beautifully decorated gate

red soil aggregate

soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin (usu. topping on ramen)

spearflower (Ardisia japonica)

apple of one's eye

throne

liquidation of speculative accounts

Saitama University

Ficus pumila var. awkeotsang (variety of climbing fig)

silver ball

jeweler

droplet of oil floating on water

moon

pachinko

globe valve

red ball

red onion

colored bead (coloured)

sapphire

black hat hacker

LDL cholesterol

black ball

man who marries a wealthy or upwardly-mobile woman

special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels

fried egg

radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the end of the war (recording of Hirohito; broadcast August 15, 1945)

Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)

Saitama Prefecture (Kanto area)

playing with one's king in its original starting position

king (of the junior player)

moon

French knot

gravel

having nothing to do

one should learn from other's mistakes

short time

HDL cholesterol

white hat hacker

mixed bag

scrotum

bubble float (angling)

to shrivel up in fear

polka dots

toy balloon

Saitama Prefectural University

Saitama Institute of Technology