expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• (a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs

noun:

• establishing something (e.g. a company or a religious order) by oneself; company or religious order founded in such a way - obscure term

noun:

• komi; extra points given to the white player as compensation for playing second (in go)

noun:

• land given to high-ranking government officials (ritsuryo system); land given to pay for the expenses of a government office ➜ 職分田

expression:

• finished; done with - slang

expression / adverb:

• as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time

noun:

• epididymitis; inflammation of the epididymis - Medicine term

noun:

• wisdom and self-protection; wise and skilled in the art of self-protection - four character idiom

noun:

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

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to bring to an end; to close the curtain ➜ 幕になる【まくになる】

noun:

• Dixie; southern states of the USA - colloquialism
• Dixieland jazz - abbreviation ➜ デキシーランドジャズ

noun:

• moon, snow and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi) ➜ 雪月花

noun:

• hutong; narrow street or alley, esp. in Beijing - From Chinese

noun:

• molluscum contagiosum; viral infection of the skin

noun / ~の noun:

• aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature

noun:

• chakra; centers of spiritual power in the human body, in Indian thought - From Sanskrit

noun:

• abhidharma; texts that contain detailed reworkings of the Buddhist sutras - Buddhism term

noun:

• Cetorhinidae; family whose only member is the basking shark

noun:

• Sphyrna; genus of hammerhead sharks in the family Sphyrnidae

noun:

• points-based reward website; website where users can earn redeemable points by taking part in surveys, etc.

noun:

• biosatellite; satellite designed to carry life in space

noun:

• disturbance of sleep; nuisance in the middle of the night

noun:

• Saikyo; one of the eight gods of the koyomi ➜ 八将神

noun:

• foreign residents of Japan; foreigners living in Japan

noun:

• Onbashira Festival; log-dragging festival held once every six years in Suwa, Nagano