noun:

• purple spot (on a plant)

noun:

• Mariana Trench (deepest part of the ocean, near the Mariana Islands)

noun:

• contract (entered into on the basis of a promise or previous agreement); formal agreement; contract at hand

noun:

• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - sometimes read たまをのぼし or たまほめぼし - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 鬼・魂讃め星・魂緒の星
• "day of the ghost" ➜ 鬼宿日

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

noun:

• seine fishing (usu. from the beach); dragnet fishing ➜ 地引網

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東

noun:

• nursing care level (between 1 and 5 based on assessment of care requirements) ➜ 要介護

noun:

• strong-smelling edible plant (esp. perennials of the family Liliaceae, e.g. Welsh onion, garlic, wild rocambole, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• Nichiren sect of Buddhism (sometimes specifically referring to the Hokke school of Nichiren)
• Tendai sect of Buddhism

noun:

• Komura Faction (of the LDP)

noun:

• Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim ➜ 四国巡礼

noun:

• Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to exit - slang ➜ 入り待ち

noun:

• subversion (of the state)

~と adverb / adverb:

• whistling (of the wind); blowing
• fluttering (in the wind); waving; flapping; flying
• tottering; staggering
• aimlessly; wandering about; roaming
• aloof from the world; easygoing; transcendental; detached

expression:

• time when moles transform into quails (second climate of the third month) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthoptera, subspecies of the Japanese hornet, Vespa simillima) ➜ 毛深雀蜂【けぶかすずめばち】

noun:

• praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis) - occ. written 杜父魚

noun:

• prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier

noun:

• lumber (for the ribs of a ship)

noun:

• General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ ➜ ＧＨＱ

noun:

• tattoo (esp. a tattoo of a flame-wreathed dragon wrapped around and swallowing the tip of an upright sword); person with a tattoo ➜ 倶利迦羅

noun:

• savannah monkey (the vervet monkey, green monkey and grivet monkey taken collectively as one species, Cercopithecus aethiops)