noun:

• heart-to-heart communication; thought transference; holding a flower and subtly smiling [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• irrelevant and incoherent dialogue; meaningless parlor debate; dialogue at cross purposes - idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees ➜ 這い蹲う

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees ➜ 這い蹲る

noun:

• rank and file member of staff; ordinary employee; low-grade employee

noun:

• particle that attaches to a phrase and acts on the whole phrase - e.g. the の of のです ➜ のです

noun:

• modan'yaki (okonomiyaki topped with yaki-soba and fried together)

noun:

• Special Higher Police (1911-1945); police unit controlling political thought and expression

noun / adjectival noun:

• to the satisfaction of all parties; all sides being happy and satisfied - four character idiom

noun:

• Sunna (collection of recorded words and actions of the prophet Muhammad); Sunnah - From Arabic "sunna"

noun:

• envelope containing betrothal money and given as part of a betrothal gift

noun:

• open shop system (employment of both unionists and non-unionists) Antonym: ユニオンショップ制

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)

noun:

• Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869)

noun:

• exposed skin between top of knee-high socks and hemline of skirt - manga slang

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• boa catshark (Scyliorhinus boa, species from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico)

noun / adjectival noun:

• young orphan - archaism
• being alone and weak with no place to go to - archaism

noun:

• door made of one or several wooden planks and no door framework ➜ 桟唐戸

noun:

• Treaty of Shimoda (1855); treaty initiating official relations between Russia and Japan

noun:

• clouds appearing before the wind starts to blow
• winds and clouds - esp. かぜくも ➜ 風雲【ふううん】

noun:

• placing a minor under protective detention; imposing a care and custody order

noun:

• pot dish with white flesh fish and shottsuru sauce (Akita regional dish) ➜ 塩汁【しょっつる】

noun:

• rasbora (small minnow-like fish of genera Boraras, Microrasbora, Rasbora, and Trigonostigma)

noun:

• grounds of a Shinto shrine
• enchanted land; abode of immortals and gods