noun:

• wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)

noun:

• woman who is obsessed with the education of her children

noun:

• rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)

noun:

• The Big Apple (nickname for New York City)

prefix:

• indicates the target of an activity; -ee (e.g. employee, examinee, trustee)

noun:

• sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (Mar. 20, 1995)

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust) ➜ 精霊飛蝗

noun:

• larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish) - sometimes read ごんどうくじら - obscure term ➜ 巨頭鯨

noun:

• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• criminal conspiracy (participation in the planning a crime, but not its execution)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pierce something all the way through (with a lance, arrow, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• Arcturus (star in the constellation Boötes); Alpha Bootis - Astronomy term

noun:

• round-necked robe worn by members of nobility and the imperial court

noun:

• dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term

noun:

• degenerative eye disorder caused by cloudiness in front of the pupil - obscure term ➜ 底翳

noun:

• any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits) - obscure term ➜ 鶺鴒
• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) ➜ 時鳥

noun:

• 33 temples in the Kinki area containing a statue of Avalokitesvara

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of speech (with sentences ending in "da") ➜ である体

noun:

• treehopper (any insect of family Membracidae, esp. the species Orthobelus flavipes)

noun:

• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

noun:

• comb jellies (jellyfish-like animals of the phylum Ctenophora) ➜ 有櫛動物

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

noun:

• the five commissioners (administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi) ➜ 五大老