noun / ~する noun:

• moving forward by sliding on one's knees (in the presence of high-ranking individuals)

noun:

• expression suggesting that the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history - four character idiom

noun:

• offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• lady-killer; casanova; Don Juan
• kabuki actor who has mastered the art of romantic acting

noun:

• bustle; crinolette; patch lining the seat (kimono)
• hip pad (football) - Sports term
• loin guard (armor); tasse

noun:

• public transmission rights (e.g. putting copyrightable material on the WWW or an FTP server)

noun:

• Parapoxvirus (genus of large oval shaped DNA based viruses in the family Poxviridae)

noun / ~の noun:

• establishing a large lead over one's competitors; breaking away (from the field)

noun:

• allowance paid by the Sumo Association to a coach for each wrestler in his stable - Sumo term

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term ➜ 北玉時代

noun:

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

noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh ➜ 結跏趺坐【けっかふざ】

noun:

• ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 促音便

noun:

• traditional "Chinese" medicine for the stomach (usually prepared as small dark spherical pills)

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• not quite ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• close run; just falling short of success

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period

noun:

• Golden Triangle (area near the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos)

noun:

• harvesting rice while it is still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date ➜ 青田買い【あおたがい】

noun:

• tiles used to cover nail holes in cypress bark roofing for the purpose of waterproofing

noun / ~する noun:

• beginning one's studies with something familiar and gradually increasing the depth of learning - four character idiom

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine