expression:

• (of a choice) one being as excellent as the other; both so beautiful it is hard to choose between - idiom

noun:

• manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) ➜ 漫画

noun:

• intelligent design (theory that life or the universe must have been designed by an intelligent being)

expression:

• even a homely girl looks beautiful at the peak of her youth; even coarse tea tastes good when freshly-brewed [literal] - abbreviation ➜ 鬼も十八番茶も出花

expression:

• just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth ➜ 番茶も出花

expression / adjective:

• simple (e.g. matter); problem free
• hopeless; the end (i.e. leaving one at a loss of words); dumbfounding

noun:

• (entering into) nirvana

suffix noun:

• used after a date to indicate the death of a monk at that time

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• silent; tranquil - usu. せき

noun:

• surrounding area ［へ・べ］ - archaism
• shore (of the sea) ［へ・べ］

suffix:

• suffix used as a rough indicator of location, direction, time, etc. - esp. え,べ

expression:

• matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation) - colloquialism ➜ こちらの話
• our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)

expression:

• if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears; the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass [literal]

noun:

• tossing several items into the air and attempting to catch them all (form of street performance)
• sleight of hand; magic

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• Chiloscyllium (genus of carpet sharks or bamboo sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with long snouts and subterminal nostrils)

noun:

• scoophead (Sphyrna media, species of little-known hammerhead shark found in tropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific)

noun:

• slender unicorn (Naso minor, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from Mozambique to the Philippines); blackspine unicornfish; little unicorn

noun:

• finelined surgeonfish (Acanthurus grammoptilus, species of Western Pacific tang found in the Philippines, Indonesia and north-western Australia)

noun:

• wooden board used on the ridge-ends of a roof instead of an onigawara tile (sometimes covered in copper sheeting) ➜ 鬼瓦

noun:

• event where schoolchildren wash their inkstones, brushes and desks the night before Tanabata to pray for success in their studies - obscure term ➜ 七夕

noun:

• kami celebrated at the beginning of New Year (usu. to pray for a good harvest) ➜ 神【かみ】
• goddess of (lucky) directions ➜ 歳徳神

noun:

• thatched-roof gate (used as the entrance to a garden, esp. of a tea ceremony house)
• my home ［ぼうもん］ - humble language

noun:

• small roof (e.g. over the first storey of a building, a window, an attached shed or veranda, etc.); overhang ➜ 大屋根

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】・ピー柿【ピーかき】

noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• heddle; heald; part of a loom, a wire or cord with an eye, through which the warp threads are threaded