noun:

• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• criminal conspiracy (participation in the planning a crime, but not its execution)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pierce something all the way through (with a lance, arrow, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• Arcturus (star in the constellation Boötes); Alpha Bootis - Astronomy term

noun:

• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

noun:

• small cedar - abbreviation - archaism
• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) ➜ 小杉原

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

noun:

• mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e. sore, soko, sochira) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - Kansai dialect ➜ ない

interjection:

• humph; hmph

noun:

• Qing-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 19th century) ➜ 清【しん】

noun:

• Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century) ➜ 明【みん】

expression:

• having the luck to escape trouble (your behaviour has landed you in)

noun:

• Ama no Nuhoko; the heavenly jeweled spear used by Izanagi and Izanami - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

noun:

• heavenly king - Buddhism term
• Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva) ➜ 牛頭天王

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• mountain language (euphemisms used by hunters, etc. when in the wild) ➜ 忌み詞

noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 旅所

noun:

• Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004, resulting in the Indian Ocean tsunami)

expression:

• midsummer greetings; to inquiry after someone's health in the hot season - humble language ➜ 暑中お見舞い

noun:

• someone or something that just gets in the way; a burden ➜ 荷物

expression:

• craft brings nothing home; the crafty schemer drowns in his own scheme [literal] - proverb

expression:

• rushing to one's doom; (like a) moth flying into the flame - idiom