noun:

• playing an entire composition without break; continually playing (in the background of a melody)

noun / ~する noun:

• observation; looking out (into the distance)

noun:

• gharial; gavial (large crocodilian found on the Indian subcontinent) - From French

expression / noun:

• perseverance prevails; three years on a (cold) stone (will make the stone warm) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Kenmu era (of unified Japan) (1334.1.29-1336.2.29); Kenmu era (of the Northern Court) (1336.2.29-1338.8.28)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hear; to catch (the sound of something)
• to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to learn of (something)
• to get used to hearing

adverb / ~と adverb:

• thump; thud (sound representing the footfalls of something heavy) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• reply letter; retranslation (into the original language)

noun:

• smoothing out wrinkles; (with reference to the elderly) recreation

noun:

• demonic or magic being; inhabitant of hell (or the spirit world) ➜ 神族・魔界

noun:

• secretary-general; general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of the Democratic Republic of North Korea and the People's Republic of China) ➜ 主席

noun:

• beloved concubine; favourite concubine (e.g. of the shogun) ➜ めかけ

noun / ~する noun:

• join one's hands in prayer; pray with (the palms of) one's hands together - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be turned up; to be lifted up (e.g. by the wind)

expression / adjective:

• mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable - idiom

noun:

• looking aside; (from the) eyes of an onlooker

noun:

• Far Eastern brook lamprey (Lethenteron reissneri); sand lamprey (species found in the Northwest Pacific)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to put oneself in; to enter; to serve (e.g. in the army); to be enlisted

noun:

• real world; outside world (e.g. the world outside of school)

noun:

• émigré; political refugee (esp. from the French Revolution) - From French

noun:

• sitting while waiting; (according to the lunar calendar) an eighteen-day-old moon

noun:

• lock; tuft; tassel; feathers (i.e. fringe of hair on the legs); feathering; penicil

noun:

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

noun:

• layering; placing a large amount of orders and cancelling before they are executed (with the intent of manipulating the market) - Finance term ➜ 見せ板【みせいた】

noun:

• Vietcong; Viet Cong (communist guerrilla soldiers who fought in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War)