noun:

• the Big Dipper seen on a winter night ➜ 北斗

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be the mother of someone's child

noun:

• star in the sky on a spring night

noun:

• Balitoridae; family comprising the river loaches

noun:

• clothes worn by the nobility when attending Court

noun:

• contemplation (on Amida Buddha, the Pure Land, etc.) - Buddhism term ➜ 口称念仏

noun:

• inside the back cover (book); rear end-paper ➜ 見返し【みかえし】

adverbial noun:

• in the future; from now on; henceforth; hereafter - archaism

noun:

• work experience; practical study in the real world

expression:

• salutation at the end of a formal letter - archaism

noun:

• loss-making business; company operating in the red

noun / ~の noun:

• security-related; from the stand-point of safety

noun:

• kabuki in the style of Kyoto or Osaka ➜ 江戸狂言

noun:

• kabuki in the style of Kyoto or Osaka ➜ 上方狂言

noun:

• Battle of the Bulge (1944-1945)

noun:

• Scaphopoda (class of molluscs comprising the tooth shells)

noun:

• wind coming from the top of a mountain ➜ 山颪【やまおろし】

noun:

• occlusion in the circle of Willis ➜ もやもや病

noun:

• abnormal cerebrovascular network in the cerebral basal region ➜ ウィリス動脈輪閉塞症

noun:

• ground stone tool from the late Jomon period ➜ 独鈷石

noun:

• coin used during the Hōei period (ca. 1708)

noun:

• Chinese traitor (esp. a collaborator with the Japanese)

noun:

• Confederation of the Rhine (1806-1813)

noun:

• skin stretched on the sides of a biwa ➜ 琵琶【びわ】

noun:

• Maitreya (bodhisattva) - Buddhism term ➜ 弥勒菩薩
• Ajita (one of the sixteen arhats) - Buddhism term ➜ 十六羅漢