expression / godan ~す verb:

• to evade (questions); to reply evasively; to beat around the bush; to throw up a smoke screen

noun:

• small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state) - four character idiom

suffix / conjunction:

• as it is bound to (happen); following the natural course
• though possible as it may be

noun:

• Kannō era (of the Northern Court) (1350.2.27-1352.9.27); Kan'ō era

expression:

• Don't be absurd; That's out of the question; Nonsense; Don't mention it

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "on" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 訓仮名【くんがな】・万葉仮名【まんようがな】

noun:

• scarab (Egyptian gemstone) - From French "scarabee"
• scarabeid (any of a group of beetles including the scarab beetle, Scarabeus sacer)

noun:

• freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium spp., esp. the Oriental river prawn, Macrobrachium nipponense)

noun:

• deluded mind (a mind polluted with klesha, incapable of understanding the original essence of things) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

noun:

• skua (any bird of family Stercorariidae, incl. the jaegers)
• pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus); pomarine skua

noun / ~する noun:

• lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name; collective name; generic term ➜ 総称

noun:

• savannah monkey (the vervet monkey, green monkey and grivet monkey taken collectively as one species, Cercopithecus aethiops)

noun / ~する noun:

• total coverage; giving total coverage to the key figure(s) of a TV or film documentary ➜ 密着

noun:

• Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi (heavenly gathering of clouds sword; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

noun:

• Grand Council of State (1868-1885 CE) ［だじょうかん・だいじょうかん］
• Department of State (under the ritsuryo system) - usu. だいじょうかん ➜ 律令制

noun:

• caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods

noun:

• Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)

ichidan verb:

• to crop; to shear; to cut or trim something evenly; to make all the same length - obscure term

noun:

• marigold (esp. the French marigold, Tagetes patula) ➜ マリーゴールド
• plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria) ➜ ハルシャ菊
• northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum) ➜ 孔雀羊歯

expression / noun:

• two-top (soccer formation); formation with two forwards at the front line - Sports term

interjection:

• what the hell; oh, great!; son of a gun; holy mackerel; oh no!; holy cow!; damn!

noun:

• Hydrolagus barbouri (species of cartilaginous fish found in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea)

noun:

• Rhincodon (genus of one species of whale shark, Rhincodon typus, in the family Rhincodontidae)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations

noun:

• plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (dyed with botanical pigments found on the island)