noun:

• monk; priest, particularly a high-ranking Zen monk honored by the imperial court - honorific language

expression:

• fools rush in where angels fear to tread; the blind don't fear snakes [literal] - sensitive - proverb

noun:

• Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to take the responsibility (for an action); to carry out in a responsible manner

noun:

• in calligraphy, the four important tools of brush, ink stone, ink stick, and paper - four character idiom

noun:

• game of (blindfolded) tag similar to the children's swimming pool game "Marco Polo"

noun / adjectival noun:

• great inconvenience; great deal of trouble; big nuisance; royal pain in the behind

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to sit on the edge of one's seat; to be in breathless suspense

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to wet the lips of a dying person; to attend someone's last moments

expression:

• not knowing what to do with the time one has on one's hand

noun:

• arm (esp. upper arm) - archaism

counter:

• counter used to measure the thickness of round objects

noun / ~する noun:

• studying in the morning (by oneself); brief "self-study" period before morning classes begin

expression:

• good medicine tastes bitter; the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to - proverb

noun:

• clownfish (Amphiprioninae spp., esp. the yellowtail clownfish, Amphiprion clarkii); anemone fish

noun:

• Potsdam Conference (Jul.-Aug., 1945 conference regarding the postwar occupation of Germany)

noun:

• Lorelei (Loreley); Rhine maiden who lured sailors to their doom
• rock in the Rhine

noun:

• CAM plant (any plant, such as the pineapple, that uses crassulacean acid metabolism)

noun:

• ancient Shinto (as practiced prior to the Introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism to Japan)

noun:

• member of a (school) club who does not partake in the club's activities - humorous term ➜ 帰宅部

noun:

• Wallace's line (hypothetical line separating the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions)

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

suffix:

• honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status - honorific language

noun:

• statue of a figure sitting contemplatively in the half lotus position (often of Maitreya) - Buddhism term ➜ 弥勒菩薩

noun:

• small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (i.e. on Awaji Island) ➜ 四国八十八箇所

expression:

• with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; with the force of surging waves [literal]