noun:

• central image (e.g. in a Buddha triad) - Buddhism term ➜ 三尊【さんぞん】・脇侍【きょうじ】

noun / ~する noun:

• drift (e.g. in frequency)

noun:

• iteration mark shaped like the hiragana "ku" (used in vertical writing to represent repetition of two or more characters) ➜ 踊り字

noun:

• manual calling (e.g. in data network) - IT term

noun:

• spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)

noun:

• use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)

noun:

• ancient Chinese chromatic scale (primarily used in Japan for gagaku, etc.) ➜ 雅楽

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

noun:

• Deneb (star in the constellation Cygnus); Alpha Cygni - Astronomy term

noun:

• the two leading actors (in a play); the two star players; the two distinctive features; the two main items (attractions) - four character idiom

noun:

• (earthenware) mortar (for grinding)

noun:

• hardener (catalyst in hardening thermosetting materials)

noun:

• hijiki (dark edible seaweed usu. sold in dried black strips; Hizikia fusiformis)

noun:

• precepts given to an adherent prior to being consecrated as an Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 伝法灌頂・阿闍梨

noun:

• cooking pot (for roasting, broiling, etc.)

noun:

• megafeps (mnemonic for verbs that never precede infinitives, but rather their gerunds); mind, enjoy, give up, avoid, finish, escape, postpone, stop

noun:

• mobilization of labor services (e.g. in wartime)

noun:

• Enkianthus perulatus (species of flowering plant in the Ericaceae family)

noun:

• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - Buddhism term

noun:

• return value (from a function, in programming)

noun:

• short love song (popular in late Edo period)

noun:

• boue chauffante (self-heating mud-pack for cosmetic purposes) - From French

noun:

• Achernar (star in the constellation Eridanus); Alpha Eridani - Astronomy term

expression / noun:

• (lesson in) tough love - idiom

noun:

• Fomalhaut (star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus); Alpha Piscis Austrini - Astronomy term