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Hyphenated Japanese terms are listed as single words.

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dachi waifu (Dutch wife) ダッチワイフ: Dutch wife. A love doll, these can range from inexpensive blow up models to pricey life sized dolls. There are some with the features of porn actresses and even childlike models.
Manga:
In GTO (v.1 ch.3) when Nanako first comes to his apartment Onizuka does not want her to come in until he cleans up the mess which includes an inflatable love doll.
Sources:
Constantine, Peter. Japan's Sex Trade p.195
Sinclair, Joan. Pink Box p.186

DAGGER LIKE WEAPON see: suntetsu (The Anime Companion 2 p.93)

daifuku 大福餅: A simple mochigashi, mochi confection, made with a thin wrapping of mochi (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.87) around a large amount of an filling. The making of daifuku dates from the Edo Period (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.25).
Anime:
Jigoro offers ichigo (strawberry) daifuku, translated as "strawberry filled cake", to Yawara, and greatly enjoys it himself, in the first episode of Yawara!
Sources:
Illustrated Eating in Japan p.131
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.261

daikan 代官 (The Anime Companion 2 p.15): Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.263

daikokuten 大黒天 OLD FORM 大黑天 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.21): Sources:
Joya, Mock. Mock Joya's Things Japanese p.465, p.647
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.264

daikon (radish) だいこん or 大根 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.21): Sources:
Joya, Mock. Mock Joya's Things Japanese p.250
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.1243

DAIMONJI OKURIBI see: okuribi (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.100)

daimyō (han lord) 大名 (The Anime Companion 2 p.15): Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.264-265
Turnbull, Stephen. The Samurai Sourcebook p. 11

DAIMYŌ DOMAIN see: han (The Anime Companion 2 p.26)

Dai Nippon Teikoku Rikugun (Imperial Japanese Army) 大日本帝国陸軍 OLD FORM 大日本帝國陸軍 (The Anime Companion 2 p.14): Source:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p. 53-54, 594

DAMP TOWEL see: oshibori (small damp towel)

DANCE see:: Awa odori (Awa dance ) (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.8)
Bon odori (Bon dance) (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.13)

DANCE WITH BASKET see: dojō sukui (The Anime Companion 2 p.16)

dango (dumpling) だんご or 団子 OLD FORM 團子 (The Anime Companion 2 p.15): Sources:
Hosking, Richard. Dictionary of Japanese Food p.36
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.272-3

DANGO, GREEN see: kusa-dango

DANGO WITH MUGWORT see: kusa-dango

Dannoura no Tatakai 壇ノ浦の戦い OLD FORM 壇ノ浦の戰ひ (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.21): Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.273

DARANI-SHŪ ("SPELLS SECT") see: Shingonshū (Shingon sect of Buddhism

DARTS (WEAPON) see: shuriken (The Anime Companion 2 p.89)

daruma 達磨 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.21): Sources:
Vardaman, James M. and Michiko Sakaki Vardaman Japan From A to Z p.31-2
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.273

dashi (stock) だし or 出し (The Anime Companion 2 p.15): Sources:
Hosking, Richard. A Dictionary of Japanese Food p.36
Ashburne, John & Abe Yoshi. World Food Japan p. 41

DEATH ANNIVERSARIES see: meinichi (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.81)

DEATH FIRE see: hitodama (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.46)

DEATH GOD see: shinigami (kami of death)

DEATH, LEGAL DEFINITION OF see: zōki ishioku (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.150)

DECEPTIVE WEAPON see: shikomibuki (deceptive weapon)

DECEPTIVE MONK'S STAFF see: shikomi shakujō (deceptive monk's staff)

DECORATED TRUCK see: decotora (decorated truck)

decotora (decorated truck) デコトラ: A contraction of the English phrase "decorated truck", These are not tricked out pickups but full sized heavy work vehicles. The decorations usually include mural sized paintings, large calligraphy, exhaust extensions, massive bumpers, piping front and back, much of all of this in chrome and with lights, at times enough lights to make the trucks look like a moving pachinko (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.104) parlor. The style was popularized by the 1975 Truck Yaro film staring Sugawara Bunta as a truck driver with a decorated rig. The popular film resulted in truck owners modifying their rigs often with items cannibalized from other types of vehicles such a tour buses. In time specialty shops began supplying items and the styles varied and expanded. Today there are even hobbyists who own such trucks, belong to clubs and meeting for gatherings with entire families.
Anime and Manga:
In GTO (v.2 ch.10 and ep.2) we see Great Driver Onizuka on the road in Akita Ken and then back, oh how back, to Tōkyō (The Anime Companion 2 p.104).
Anime:
In Maison Ikkoku (ep.1) we see a very simple decotora with lights on the edges of the trailer blinking in a pattern.
In Pom Poko a truck is seen at night with the decorative lights on.
A very modern decotora with a cheesecake mural on the side is seen in the highway scene in Lupin the 3rd Crisis in Tokyo.
In Millennium Actress we get a good night time view of a decotora with lots of lights and a mural of cranes along side of the trailer.
In the future there will be decotora in space. the proof is in the Dirty Pair “We’re Space Truckers!” episode and in Cowboy Bebop episode 7 "Heavy Metal Queen".
Manga:
In the GTO manga (v.20 ch.159) Ryuji delivers a decotora with a large phoenix motif mural on the trailer to Onizuka's school.
Sources:
Kato Tomoyuki. The Art Trucks of Japan

DEEPU SUROTO (DEEP THROAT) see: ferachio (fellatio)

DEER see: shika (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.117)

DEER CRY PAVILION see: Rokumeikan

DEFLOWERING see: mizuage

Dejima 出島: In 1634 the Tokugawa bakufu (The Anime Companion 2 p.8) began building Dejima, an artificial island in Nagasaki Harbor, using funds from 25 wealthy merchants. When the island was completed in 1636 all the Portuguese in Japan were ordered to move there. After the Shimabara Uprising (Shimabara no Ran; The Anime Companion 2 p.84) Tokugawa Iemitsu (The Anime Companion 2 p.102) ordered all Portuguese and their families deported to Macao. In 1641 the island was turned over to the merchants of the Dutch East India Company, who had been living in Hirado and were now required to live on Dejima. The complex of buildings included sixty five structures for which the merchants annually paid the city of Nagasaki (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.90) 55 kan, or 206 kilograms, of silver. During the long period of national isolation that was to end 213 years later during the Bakumatsu (The Anime Companion 2 p.8) this was the only place foreigners were allowed to reside in Japan. During the Meiji Period (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.81) Dejima ceased to be an island as it was connected to the city by filling in the water between it and the city. Dejima translates as 'exit island'
Anime:
A different Dejima of the future, again an isolated resident for foreigners, is mentioned in the first episode of Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG and sees lots of action in the final episodes.
Manga:
In Peacemaker Kurogane (v.3 p.105) Tatsunosuke asks Sakamoto Ryōma (The Anime Companion 2 p.76) if he bought his gun in a store for foreigners in Dejima.
In Samurai Executioner (v.6 p.205) a prisoner known as Yaheiji of Dejima, the head of a smuggling ring, is to be executed.
Sources:
De Mente, Boye Lafayette. Japan Encyclopedia p. 88
Goedertier, Joseph M. Dictionary of Japanese History p. 40
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.277
Web Site:
Dejima Comes Back to Life.

DELIVERY OF PREPARED FOOD see: demaé (The Anime Companion 2 p.16)

demaé (delivery of prepared food) 出前 (The Anime Companion 2 p.16): Sources:
Discover Japan v.1 p.84
Eating in Japan p.74
Outlook On Japan p.72

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PARTY see: Minshatō (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.84)

DEMON FACED END TILE see: onigawa (The Anime Companion 2 p.69)

DEMON MASK see: han'nya

DEMON UMBRELLA see: Kara-kasa (umbrella yōkai)

DEMONESS OF ADACHI see: Adachigahara (The Anime Companion 2 p.3)

DEMONS, PACK of see: hyakki yagyō (night procession of 100 demons)

denki-gama (electric rice cooker) でんきがま or 電気釜 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.22): Sources:
Eating in Japan p.162, and local stores

Dennō Gakuen 電脳学園: Also known as Cyber School, Cybernetic Hi School or Cybernetic High School. A series of PC quiz games released by GAINAX on HD disks. Over time four games were released in the series. The original one was the first bideo gēmu released by GAINAX and was largely designed by Akai Takami who did everything except the programming and music. The object of these quiz games is simple, undress girls. By keeping the art in-house or commissioning art for the games costs were kept to a minimum.
Each game had a separate theme:
The first Dennō Gakuen game consisted of answering questions from school girls about anime, special effects movies, and manga.
The second, Dennō Gakuen 2: Highway Buster, was about cars and motorbikes with art by Shinda Mane, Akitaka Mika, and Kikuchi Michitaka (Asamiya Kia)
The third Dennō Gakuen 3: Top o Nerae! was based on the famous GAINAX anime GunBuster (Top o Nerae!) The player would challenge Kazumi, Jung, and Noriko to become a GunBuster pilot, and of course undress the girls.
The fourth was Dennō Gakuen 4: Ape Hunter J. This game involved tracking down 'evolved apemen' who were hard to distinguish from humans. It also returned the first game's goal of undressing school girls.
Later the first game would be re-released on CD-ROM for both Windows and Macintosh.
Anime:
In the third interview during the 1985 Zoku (More) second part of Otaku no Video the game shown is the first Dennō Gakuen game and is identified as Cybernetic High School. The character on the screen is Hiroko.
Sources:
Takeda Yasuhiro. The Notenki Memoirs p.129, 173.
Web Site:
Ninelives Dennō Gakuen page (last checked on Nov 7, 2005)

denwa (telephone) でんわ or 電話 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.22): Sources:
Vardaman, James M. and Michiko Sakaki Vardaman Japan From A to Z p.82
A Look Into Tokyo p.171
Today's Japan p.121

DEPARTMENT STORES see: depāto (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.23)

depāto (department store) デパート (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.23): Sources:
Discover Japan v.2 p.74

DESHIMA see: Dejima

DESSERT, WHITE CUBES see: anmitsu (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.6)

DEVIL'S TONGUE JELLY see: konnyaku (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.74)

DICE see: saikoro (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.108)

DICK GIRL see: futanari

DIET OR PARLIAMENT see: Kokkai (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.72)

DIM SUM see: shūmai (The Anime Companion 2 p.89)

DIRECTIONS TO ADDRESSES see: atena (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.8)

DISTRICT see: chihō

DIVINATION see:

mikuji (fortune stick) (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.83)

sangi (yin-yang divination blocks) (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.111)

zeichiku (The Anime Companion 2 p.121)

DIVINATION, BUREAU OF see: Ommyōryō (Bureau of Yin and Yang)

DIVORCE FORM see: rikon todoke (Notification of a Divorce)

DIVORCE TEMPLE see: kakekomidera (refuge temple)

Dōgen 道元 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.23): Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.289

DOG SHOGUN see: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi

dogs and pregnant women (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.23): Sources:
Vardaman, James M. and Michiko Sakaki Vardaman Japan From A to Z p.36

dohyō (sumo ring) 土俵: The ring used for sumo (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.127) bouts. Originally the rings were simply a circle of participants and viewers, by the early Edo Period (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.25) a rope secured around four poles served as the area for competition. Eventually a standard was established of a mound of earth (do) with long straw sacks (hyō or tawara) used to mark the circle. The modern mound for professional sumo is a trapezoid, 54 centimeters tall (21 inches) and 5.7 meters (18.7 feet) on each long side. The upper edge of the mound is lined with 32 earthen filled straw sacks buried so one side protrudes. Inside the square is a circle with a diameter of 4.6 meters (14.9 feet) made of 20 sacks. If any part of a rikishi lands outside the circle he has lost the match, the area outside the circle is covered with easily disturbed sand that is swept after each bout. The judges can use footprints and other marks in this sand to assist them in making decisions as to who is the winner. Inside the circle, near the center, are two parallel lines, shikirisen, where the fighters position themselves before the bout. Over all of this in sumo halls is a Shintō (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.121) style roof that is suspended from the ceiling, at each corner is a tassel in one of four colors symbolizing the four seasons. In professional sumo the dohyō is built before each 15 day tournament.
Anime:
In Kami Chu! (ep.9) we find that the famous battleship Yamato (The Anime Companion 2 p.116) had a dohyō on the deck.
Manga:
In Maniac Road (v.1 p.99) Aoba explains that captain Yamaguchi Tamon of the battleship Ise so loved sumo that he had soil hauled on the ship and a dohyō made for his crew.
Sources:
Buckingham, Dorothea N. Essential Guide to Sumo p. 56-58
Illustrated A Look Into Japan p.122
Illustrated Martial Arts & Sports in Japan p. 26-27.
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.290.

dōjinshi (fanzine) 同人誌 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.23): Sources:
Schodt, Frederik. Dreamland Japan p.36

dōjō (training hall) 道場 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.23): Sources:
Frederic, Louis. Dictionary of the Martial Arts p.27
Draeger, Donn F. Classical Bujutsu p.43-

dojō sukui 泥鰌掬い or 泥鰌掬 (The Anime Companion 2 p.16): Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.291

dokudami どくだみ or 毒痛み (The Anime Companion 2 p.16): Sources:
Levy, Ran. Wild Flowers of Japan p.25-26

DOLL FESTIVAL see: Hina Matsuri (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.45)

DOLLS DISPLAYED see: Hina Matsuri (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.45)

DOLL SHAPED PASTRIES see: ningyōyaki

DOMAIN see: han (The Anime Companion 2 p.26)

DOMBURI see: donburi (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.24)

DŌMINO see: mino (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.84)

DŌMYŌ see: yōmyō (The Anime Companion 2 p.118)

donabe (ceramic pot) どなべ or 土鍋 (The Anime Companion 2 p.17): Sources:
Eating in Japan p.32
Hosking, Richard. A Dictionary of Japanese Food p.38

donburi (food bowl) どんぶりor 丼 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.24): Sources:
Eating in Japan p.72
Hosking, Richard. A Dictionary of Japanese Food p.38

DOORS see:: fusuma (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.32)
shōji (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.123)

dōshin (lower-grade samurai rank) 同心: A low rank of samurai (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.110) which were often given minor duties. The term can be translated as "like minded" or "shared Hearts". Many of the police officers in major cities during the Edo Period (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.25) were dōshin. Police duties for dōshin would include patrols, investigation and guarding prisoners. Those with patrol duties would often have assistants who were commoners. The pay of dōshin police officers was so low that they would often run small businesses on the side, a violation of regulations.
Manga:
In Samurai Executioner one often sees dōshin carrying out their duties as guards or patrolmen.
In Blade of the Immortal occasionally see dōshin, usually in conflict with one or more of the major characters in the series.
Sources:
Cunningham, Don. Secret Weapons of Jujutsu p.60, 61
Cunningham, Don. Taiho-Jutsu p.45-46
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.1754

Dōtonbori 道頓堀 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.25): Sources:
Bisignani, J. D. Japan Handbook p.515

DOUBLE SUICIDE see: shinjū (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.119)

DOWRY see: yuinō (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.149)

dozō (traditional storehouse) 土蔵 OLD FORM 土藏 (The Anime Companion 2 p.17): Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.295 & 1459

DRAGON see: ryū (The Anime Companion 2 p.75)

DRAMATIC PICTURES see: gekiga

DRAWERS UNDER STAIRWAY see: kaidan dansu (The Anime Companion 2 p.36)

DREAM EATER see: Baku (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.9)

DRESSING UP IN COSTUME see: kosupure (The Anime Companion 2 p.50)

DRIED BONITO see: katsuobushi (The Anime Companion 2 p.43)

DRIED BONITO SHAVED see: kezuribushi (The Anime Companion 2 p.45)

DRINK For lists of broad categories see in the: FOOD & DRINK section in the subject index.

DRINKS - MIXING JAPANESE AND WESTERN see: chanpon (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.18)

drinks, pouring for another (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.25): Sources:
Vardaman, James M. and Michiko Sakaki Vardaman Japan From A to Z p.38
Japanese Family and Culture p.144

DROP LID see: otoshibuta (The Anime Companion 2 p.70)

DRUMS, HAND see:

kotsuzumi

ōtsuzumi

tsuzumi

DRUMS, LARGE see: taiko (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.130)

DRUNKENNESS see: yopparai (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.148)

DRY MOUNTAIN STREAM (GARDEN STYLE) see: karesansui (sand garden)

DSP see: Minshatō (Democratic Socialist Party) (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.84)

DUEL see: taryū-jiai (The Anime Companion 2 p.98)

DUMPLING see:

dango (The Anime Companion 2 p.15)