noun:

• Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices) ➜ 太政官

noun:

• stripe-tailed Goanna (Varanus gilleni, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to northwestern and central Australia)

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to receive (e.g. a title)
• to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent)
• to be blessed (e.g. with a child)
• to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)

noun / ~する noun:

• on-the-spot filming or photography

noun:

• live filming (as opposed to animation); actual picture (as opposed to a drawing); photographic image (as opposed to a drawing, computer-generated image, etc.)
• real picture or story (as opposed to fiction, imaginary scene, etc.); describing actual scenes (in writing, drawings, paintings, etc.); documentary (film)

noun:

• tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable)
• forward puller (of a rickshaw)

noun:

• a route or passage

expression:

• a word or two

noun:

• (a) day or two

noun:

• (a) year or two

noun:

• a caster or founder

noun:

• a promise or pledge

noun:

• a fold or crease

noun / adverb:

• a day or two - four character idiom

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to couch (a sword)
• to look at cynically or ironically
• to stand ready (to do); to adopt a formal attitude - archaism

noun:

• face (of a wall of coal or ore, etc.); working face (of a mine)

noun:

• calling another player's discarded tile to complete a meld (but not to complete one's hand) - Mahjong term
• declaring a kong or calling a discarded tile to complete a meld - Mahjong term

noun:

• gathering; place where people gather
• police station; camp; barracks - archaism

noun:

• roadside station (government-designated rest area found along roads and highways)

noun:

• transexual

noun / ~する noun:

• genderswap (in fan fiction, etc.) - slang ➜ 女体化

noun:

• total station
• tracking stock

noun:

• bus without a step up into it, usually because it lowers itself or has a lift; low-floor bus - From English "non-step bus"

noun:

• various intimate services (e.g. massage) rendered by a female high school student or young woman wearing a high school uniform ➜ ＪＫビジネス【ジェイケイビジネス】

noun / ~する noun:

• retreat; falling back; moving backwards; reversing; retrogression; retraction
• recession; waning

noun:

• backspace (key) - IT term