noun:

• offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• lady-killer; casanova; Don Juan
• kabuki actor who has mastered the art of romantic acting

noun:

• bustle; crinolette; patch lining the seat (kimono)
• hip pad (football) - Sports term
• loin guard (armor); tasse

noun:

• public transmission rights (e.g. putting copyrightable material on the WWW or an FTP server)

noun:

• Parapoxvirus (genus of large oval shaped DNA based viruses in the family Poxviridae)

noun / ~の noun:

• establishing a large lead over one's competitors; breaking away (from the field)

expression:

• the phenomenon that perfect reasoning fails if an idiot cannot understand it

noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh ➜ 結跏趺坐【けっかふざ】

noun:

• etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 促音便

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• not quite ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• close run; just falling short of success

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period

noun:

• harvesting rice while it is still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date ➜ 青田買い【あおたがい】

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun:

• person who pushily takes charge when cooking a hot pot at the table; hotpot boss [literal] - humorous term

noun:

• romanization (representation of foreign words using the Roman alphabet); romanized spelling

noun:

• Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945 statement establishing the terms of a Japanese surrender)

noun:

• banded houndshark (Triakis scyllium, found in the northwest Pacific from southern Siberia to Taiwan)

noun:

• oval pad with two long strips tied underneath the obi to make it look fuller

noun:

• implements used to enhance the effect of a play (e.g. props, costumes, etc.)

noun:

• day in the near future when a major event is expected to occur - colloquialism - From English "X-day"

noun:

• Asteraceae; Compositae; family of flowering plants comprising the asters, daisies, sunflowers, etc. ➜ 菊