noun:

• moving picture (i.e. a movie; term esp. used during the silent movie period) - obsolete term

noun:

• threshold (lacking the grooves needed for a sliding door); sill - Architecture term ➜ 目草【まぐさ】

noun:

• cap worn by masked dancer (cap covers hair and nape and reaches to the shoulders)

noun:

• last day (in the year) that a particular species of bird or insect, etc. sing or chirp ➜ 初鳴日

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• bright (esp. of the moon)
• broad and empty ［こうこう］

noun:

• long slits (esp. the eyes)

noun:

• form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period) ➜ 猿楽

noun:

• "limit of heat" solar term (approx. Aug. 23, when the weather is said to start cooling down) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• white sake (presented as an offering to the gods) - archaism ➜ 黒酒

noun:

• plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (dyed with botanical pigments found on the island)

noun:

• young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony)
• young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute)
• younger partner in a homosexual relationship ➜ 念者【ねんしゃ】

noun:

• chairperson (head) (of the department of psychology)

noun:

• ladies' pavilion (of the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be able to see (oft. used in the negative) ➜ 見える【みえる】・目【め】

noun:

• stork (esp. the Oriental stork, Ciconia boyciana)

noun:

• (in the stock market) short commitment

noun:

• Rhincodon (genus of one species of whale shark, Rhincodon typus, in the family Rhincodontidae)

noun:

• Nasolamia (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose only member is the whitenose shark)

noun:

• blogosphere (the world of blogs and bloggers)

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be (in contrast to something that is not the case) - である with は ➜ である

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• indicates passive voice (incl. the "suffering passive") - れる for 五段 verbs, られる for 一段 verbs. After the -nai stem of a verb ➜ 迷惑の受身【めいわくのうけみ】
• indicates the potential form - no imperative form
• indicates spontaneous occurrence - no imperative form
• used as an honorific for others' actions - no imperative form - honorific language

noun:

• (time limit imposed by the) statute of limitations

noun:

• white cane (for the blind or visually impaired)

noun:

• Hozukius emblemarius (species of fish closely related to the rockfish)

noun / ~する noun:

• ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in the chat application LINE) - colloquialism ➜ スルー