noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Zhu Xi and his followers) ➜ 陽明学

noun:

• accession (to the throne)

noun:

• Litsea coreana (species of tree in the laurel family)

noun:

• Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三代実録

noun:

• inspector (of the Dazaifu) - archaism ➜ 判官【はんがん】・大宰府

noun:

• Shōwa Depression (Japanese part of the Great Depression); Showa Depression ➜ 世界大恐慌

noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

noun:

• departure (of the emperor, etc.) - honorific language Antonym: 着御

noun:

• Ezra (book of the Bible)

noun:

• English proficiency test (esp. the STEP test) - abbreviation ➜ 実用英語技能検定

noun:

• PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ スイカ

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

noun:

• Kōwa era (of the Southern Court) (1381.2.10-1384.4.28)

noun:

• whitecheek surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans, species of tang from the Eastern Indian and Pacific Oceans)

ichidan verb:

• to throw up (in the air)

noun:

• former Christian missionary who apostatized and converted to Buddhism (during the Edo period) ➜ バテレン

noun:

• Kuninotokotachi no Mikoto (eternal god of the land)

noun:

• draft of a magazine's content (usu. a table showing the allocation of each page)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to panic (from the flu panics of late 2000's and early 2010's); to act frantically; to act bizarrely - slang ➜ タミフル

noun:

• virgin (esp. the Virgin Mary) - From Portuguese "virgem"

noun:

• rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing) ➜ 糠袋

noun:

• plasmodium (form within the life cycle of myxomycete slime molds)

expression:

• decreasing (graph falling to the right); shrinking; declining

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

auxiliary verb:

• indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
• indicates continuation from the past to the present
• end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧