noun:

• first day of cherry blossoms reaching full bloom; first day in which at least 80% of the somei yoshino cherry blossom has opened (in a specific region or place)

adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• at parting; on parting

noun:

• individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed

noun:

• chief puppeteer (bunraku); manipulates the head and right arm ➜ 三人遣い

noun:

• kakistocracy; government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens

noun:

• Characidae; family comprising the characins

noun:

• bare shoulder (clothing style); off-the-shoulder

noun:

• non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores

noun:

• legend over a picture; inscription (legend, writing) on a painting

noun:

• shoryuken; uppercut move in the Street Fighter video game series

noun / ~の noun:

• very far away; the heavenly shores - four character idiom

noun:

• my mixi; refers to the 'friend list' on mixi (or people on that list) ➜ マイミク

noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh - abbreviation ➜ 半跏趺坐

noun:

• dispute over water rights; dispute over the distribution of water into paddies during the summer (in rural areas) ➜ 水喧嘩

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone

expression / noun:

• calm before a storm; lull before the storm

noun / ~する noun:

• accompanying; being in attendance on

noun:

• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉

noun / ~の noun:

• backlighting; having a light source in front of the camera lens in photography - abbreviation ➜ 逆光線

noun:

• opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines

noun:

• Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term

noun:

• non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores

noun:

• Hadith; tradition related to the words and deeds of Muhammad - From Arabic "hadit"

noun:

• year-end bonus; bonus salary given at the end of the year

noun:

• no-manjū; Okinawan sweet manjū with hiragana "no" written on it