noun / ~の noun:

• fine crystal; clear glass

expression:

• mirror found in hell in Enma's chamber that allows people to see their good and bad deeds - abbreviation ➜ 浄玻璃の鏡

noun:

• snow, moon, and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi) ➜ 月雪花【つきゆきはな】

noun:

• qieyun (ancient Chinese dictionary arranged by rhyme, displaying characters' meanings and representing their pronunciation with fanqie)

noun:

• fish, chicken, shellfish, etc. blanched by exposure to boiling and then icy water ➜ 霜降り

noun:

• Osaka Incident; plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising, 1885

noun:

• taboo word
• euphemism (used in place of a taboo word)

noun:

• right-angled loop (used in plumbing); right-angled expansion pipe; torii-shaped piping

noun:

• Mill Test Report; Mill Test Certificate; quality assurance document used in steelmaking industry - From English "mill sheet"

noun:

• seatopia; experimental underwater habitat developed by Japan in the 1970s - From English "sea utopia"

noun:

• Aesop's Fables (published initially by the Jesuits in 1593)

noun:

• drying a futon (by hanging it outside in the sun)

noun / ~する noun:

• universal illumination (esp. in Buddhism, by the dharma-body) ➜ 法身

noun:

• words read by the priest in a Shinto purification rite

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to read in succession (e.g. by many readers)

noun:

• sociolect spoken in the Tokyo area by gyaru - Linguistics term ➜ ギャル

noun:

• drawstring purse; money pouch
• pouch of fried tofu stuffed with var. ingredients, used in oden ➜ 御田【おでん】
• unlicensed prostitute (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• wrapping something in a bamboo mat
• wrapping somebody in a bamboo mat and throwing him in a river (Edo period unofficial punishment)

suffix:

• indicates storeys, structures, or materials used in a building
• indicates denomination (after a currency)

noun:

• middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid- character height; interpoint (interword separation)

noun:

• nasal plug
• wedge (in tusk mortise-and-tenon joint); wooden pin driven through tenon to hold it in place - Architecture term

noun:

• 1955 System; Japanese political alignment with the LDP in government and the JSP in opposition, which lasted until 1993 ➜ 自由民主党【じゆうみんしゅとう】・日本社会党【にっぽんしゃかいとう】

noun / ~する noun:

• losing by being overmatched; being defeated by a stronger opponent
• losing by misusing one's powers; defeat as a result of trying too hard

noun:

• being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other - four character idiom

noun:

• Hemiscyllium (genus of longtail carpet sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with short snouts, nostrils at the tip, and elevated eyes and supraorbital ridges)

interjection:

• heigh-hoh; heave-ho
• hold on!; just a minute
• used as a meaningless word in a song for rhythm