noun:

• spirit of someone on the first O-Bon after their death ➜ 御盆
• the recently departed (and buried or cremated, etc.)

noun:

• Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi) ➜ 勅撰和歌集

noun / ~する noun:

• branch family; cadet family; setting up a branch family
• leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name ➜ 暖簾分け

noun:

• separate house - archaism

expression:

• don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility) - proverb

noun:

• resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt [literal] - four character idiom

expression:

• the guilty are audacious; show remorse when you are in the wrong - proverb

noun:

• peak oil (date when the peak of the world's petroleum production rate is reached)

noun:

• (in China) 10th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. B) ➜ 十二律・盤渉
• eighth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

noun:

• break between the light meal and the actual serving of tea (during a formal tea ceremony)

expression:

• zeal is a bad servant; the person who chases a deer does not see the mountain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)

noun:

• university of applied science (e.g. the Dutch "Hogeschool" and the German "Fachhochschule" institutes of higher education)

noun:

• Galeorhinus (genus whose only member is the school shark, Galeorhinus galeus, in the family Triakidae)

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

noun:

• beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)

noun:

• furthest pine tree from a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

• rice gruel with mochi - Food term
• azuki bean gruel eaten around the 15th day of the first month - Food term

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be prepared; to be in order; to be put in order; to be arranged - polite language ➜ 調う

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be wide-eyed (in surprise); to open one's eyes wide (in wonder); to be amazed (at, by)

expression:

• pleased to meet you; how do you do
• my regards (to someone); my greetings; best wishes; remember me to

noun:

• time for reporting to work
• time one leaves home to go to work
• working hours; number of hours worked