expression:

• coolness of distant twinkling lights (on a summer night)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to change (with the passage of time)
• to fade; to wane; to decline

noun:

• halibut (esp. the Pacific halibut, Hippoglossus stenolepis)

noun:

• occupation period (e.g. post-WWII period during which the Allies occupied Japan)

noun / ~の noun:

• ethmoid bone (of the skull)

noun:

• sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed to that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)

noun:

• Wallace's line (hypothetical line separating the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions)

noun:

• deadline (esp. in the entertainment industry); fixed ending time - colloquialism

noun:

• sprinkling water (on the ground); sprinkled water

noun:

• Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China between the 3rd & 5th centuries: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• four handed performance (on the piano)

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year) ➜ どんど

noun:

• time to buy (on markets); buying opportunity ➜ 買い時

noun:

• mackerel (esp. the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus) - archaism ➜ 鯖

noun:

• person skilled (in the art of doing something)

noun:

• motor area (of the cerebral cortex) ➜ 感覚野

noun:

• uprising (during the Muromachi period) demanding debt cancellation orders - four character idiom

noun:

• question of possession (e.g. of the Kuril Islands)

noun:

• iron arrow-head (from the Yayoi and Kofun periods)

noun:

• access lanes (e.g. on a freeway); service road; bypass

noun:

• traditional square chair with armrests and a torii-shaped back (used by the emperor, etc. during ceremonies)

noun / ~の noun:

• inner part of a house (near the kitchen, living room, etc.)
• family matters; household affairs; personal business

noun:

• blue-spotted tree monitor (Varanus macraei, species of carnivorous monitor lizard from the island of Batanta, Indonesia)

noun:

• temporary shrine (houses the object in which the deity resides when main shrine is under repairs) - Shintō term

noun:

• idol (esp. in the philosophy of Francis Bacon: idols of the tribe, cave, market, and theater) - From Latin "idola"