noun:

• go; board game of capturing territory ➜ 囲碁

noun:

• ordination; laying on of hands

noun:

• entomology; study of insects

noun:

• espresso doppio; double shot of espresso coffee - From Italian

noun:

• nursery school sleepover; one night sleepover at school in summer vacation of last year of nursery school

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill - idiom

noun / expression:

• iroha order; traditional ordering of Japanese syllabaries (based on a Buddhist poem) ➜ 五十音順

noun:

• all green; winning hand consisting only of exclusively green tiles (green dragons and suited bamboo tiles of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8) - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• Bird Day; Day of the Bird

noun:

• Saisetsu; one of the eight gods of the Koyomi ➜ 八将神

noun:

• hanakkori (Brassica napus cv. Hanakkori); hybrid of choy sum and broccoli invented in Yamaguchi prefecture

noun / ~の noun:

• global citizen; citizen of the earth

noun:

• coulrophobia; fear of clowns

noun:

• night before the full moon; 14th day of the lunar calendar ➜ 望月

noun:

• Saohime; goddess of Spring Antonym: 竜田姫 ➜ 佐保姫

noun / adjectival noun:

• persuasiveness; skilled in the art of persuasion - four character idiom

expression:

• Blossoms fall and leaves scatter; the evanescence (impermanence) of worldly things - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• calendar reform; adoption of new calendar system

noun:

• new calendar (for a new year); new year

noun:

• frequency; rate of occurrence

noun:

• Pieris japonica; fukurin; Lily of the valley bush; andromeda

noun:

• informality; breach of etiquette

~の noun / noun:

• young; blooming (age); in the prime of youth; marriageable - usu. of women

noun / ~する noun:

• canonization; establishment of sainthood

noun:

• Bovidae; family of ruminant mammals including cattle

noun:

• position; place of employment