noun:

• strips of daikon sliced the long way and dried

noun:

• strips of daikon sliced the long way and dried ➜ 割り干し大根

noun / ~の noun:

• metazoan (any member of the animal kingdom, excluding protozoans and sponges)

noun:

• rising diagonally up and to the right
• growing; expanding; soaring

noun:

• coarse broken tea leaves and buds generated during the sifting process

noun:

• monks who practise austerity to the point of death and mummification

noun:

• metal collar mounted between a sword blade and the hand guard

noun:

• blackmouth catshark (Galeus melastomus, found in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun / ~する noun:

• song and dance performed as an offering to the gods ➜ 神楽

noun:

• twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• perineum; area between sex organs and the anus ➜ 会陰【えいん】
• very narrow passage

noun:

• festival for requests and expressions of thanks to the gods (Okinawa)

noun:

• the three Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic)

noun:

• règle des trois unités; the three unities (time, place and action)

noun:

• the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• The Lapland War (between Finland and Germany 1944-1945)

noun:

• posing and moving the fingers as an art form; finger-tutting

noun:

• the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)

noun:

• interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues - Sports term ➜ セ・パ

~の noun:

• the aforementioned; the said; (man, incident, etc.) in question; the above-mentioned; the aforesaid
• the usual

noun:

• within the borders of a country; domestic soil
• inland area
• Japan proper, as opposed to its overseas colonies; interior of country; homeland - used during the WWII era
• (in Hokkaido and Okinawa) the "mainland" parts of Japan (Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu)

expression:

• there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave - proverb

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards - four character idiom

noun:

• original and copy (of a document)
• principal and vice; chief and vice-chief

noun:

• peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)