noun:

• light of wisdom (when nearing nirvana); silent illumination - Buddhism term
• paradise; nirvana - Buddhism term ➜ 寂光浄土・常寂光土

noun:

• coarse rice granules (used when making candy); roughly ground rice flour ➜ 微塵粉

noun:

• dora tile revealed when a player declares a kong - Mahjong term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp
• to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake
• to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful - often as 冴えない
• to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute
• to be satisfying - often as 冴えない ➜ 冴えない
• to become frigid; to become intensely cold - original meaning; now somewhat old-fashioned

noun:

• hinged bamboo water cup or trough, which makes a percussive sound periodically as it tips over

noun:

• pasha; honorary title in Ottoman Empire and pre-republican Egypt - From Turkish "paşa"

~と adverb / adverb:

• click; sound of a camera shutter - onomatopoeia ➜ パシャッと

expression:

• amateurish and haughty way of doing business; venturing into an unfamiliar line of business (and often failing) ➜ 士族

adverbial noun / noun:

• avenue; street; way; road
• coming and going; street traffic
• flow (of water, air, etc.)
• transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
• fame; reputation; popularity
• the same status or way; as (e.g. as expected, as I said)
• understanding; comprehension

counter:

• counter for sets of things; counter for methods, ways, types

noun:

• the end; the extremity; the limit; the limits; the result

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to make good; to improve
• to do often
• to do well

noun:

• ghost runner; placeholder used when fewer than 9 members are present on a team - Baseball term

temporal noun:

• today; this day; used in theater (kyogen, noh song, kabuki) when emphasizing ➜ 今日
• these days; recently; nowadays ➜ 今日

noun:

• national language
• Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan) ➜ 国語科
• native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

noun:

• sound-producing organ (i.e. speech organs of mammals, wings of insects)

noun:

• offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice - Buddhism term
• twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar
• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) ➜ 臈

noun:

• swidden; land made arable by slash-and-burn agriculture

noun:

• Korean alcoholic beverage made from flour or sticky rice; makkolli; makgeolli - From Korean "maggeoli"

noun:

• var. of traditional white, uncreased Japanese paper, made from high-quality mulberry wood ➜ 奉書

noun:

• mille crepe (French cake made from layers of crepes) - From French

noun:

• condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile) - Food term

noun:

• round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves) - Buddhism term ➜ 布団

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun:

• misanga bracelet; good luck charm made from knotted embroidery floss, thread or gimp - From Portuguese "missanga"

noun:

• man-made water channel (e.g. round a castle); artificial trench; moat - archaism

noun:

• rod used to ward off calamities (usu. made of holly olive) - archaism