noun:

• mansard roof

noun:

• blue-glazed roof tile ➜ 瓦【かわら】・瑠璃【るり】・瑠璃【るり】

noun:

• fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture

noun:

• black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century)
• product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.

noun:

• gifted young person who shows much promise; unrecognized genius; great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel - four character idiom

noun:

• gifted young person who shows much promise; unrecognized genius; great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel - four character idiom

noun:

• whirligig beetle (any insect of family Gyrinidae, esp. the Japanese whirligig beetle, Gyrinus japonicus)
• pond skater; water strider ➜ 水馬【あめんぼ】

noun:

• fish of the genus Rhinogobius ➜ ヨシノボリ
• dusky tripletooth goby (Tridentiger obscurus) ➜ チチブ
• common freshwater goby (Gymnogobius urotaenia) ➜ ウキゴリ
• Japanese fluvial sculpin (fish, Cottus pollux) ➜ 鰍

noun:

• wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead)
• going badly (one's business, one's fortune, the economy); being in a bad financial situation

noun:

• that (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener (in space, time or psychologically), or something understood without naming it directly) ➜ 何れ・此れ・其れ
• that person (used to refer to one's equals or inferiors)
• over there - archaism
• down there (i.e. one's genitals) ［あれ］ - colloquialism
• period; menses ［あれ］ - colloquialism

interjection:

• hey (expression of surprise, suspicion, etc.); huh?; eh?

noun:

• that (something mentioned before which is distant psychologically or in terms of time)

noun / ~の noun:

• protruding eyes
• number of pips visible after a throw of the dice

noun:

• the first generation of a family; school (of thought) or religious sect - obscure term

noun:

• central pillar of a pagoda; shinbashira
• leader of the Tenri religion ［真柱］

noun:

• Christmas; Nativity ➜ キリスト降誕祭【キリストこうたんさい】
• celebration of the birthday of a saint or great man

noun:

• head monk in charge of the administrative section of a zendo (Zen) - Buddhism term ➜ 禅堂

noun:

• slip-guard (on one side of the body of a shamisen) ➜ 胴掛け

noun:

• abomasum (fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant); maw; rennet-bag

noun:

• jatropha (member of a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family)

noun:

• Ubume; birthing woman ghost in Japanese folklore
• woman in late pregnancy; woman on the point of giving birth ［産女・孕女］ - obscure term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a commission; to take a cut; to take a piece of the action; to take a kickback - colloquialism

noun:

• 1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa

noun:

• Aum Shinrikyo; Japanese religious group responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

noun:

• western part; the west (of a region)
• the West (United States)

noun:

• at the very beginning of a book; The book opens with ... - four character idiom

adverbial noun:

• at the very beginning of a book; The book opens with ... - four character idiom