noun:

• place where there is a god or spirit; place containing the sacred object of a shrine

noun:

• draft of a magazine's content (usu. a table showing the allocation of each page)

noun:

• Kyoto's children ➜ 京童
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext ➜ 京童

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be drawn to; to feel the call of ...; to have one's heart-strings pulled

noun:

• Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November) - archaism ➜ 酉の市

noun:

• textbook approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; government-approved textbook

expression / ichidan verb:

• (for the taste of something) to become apparent
• (for someone's character) to come out

noun:

• variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region)

noun:

• starburst galaxy; galaxy in the process of an exceptionally high rate of star formation - Astronomy term ➜ スターバースト銀河【スターバーストぎんが】

noun:

• starburst galaxy; galaxy in the process of an exceptionally high rate of star formation - Astronomy term

noun:

• guidepost; signpost
• guide; manual; handbook
• tiger beetle (esp. the Japanese tiger beetle, Cicindela japonica) ➜ 斑猫

noun:

• vesper bat (Vespertilionidae spp., esp. the Asian particolored bat, Vespertilio sinensis); evening bat; common bat

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to float upright in the cup (of a tea stem, as a sign of good luck)

expression / noun:

• pro among pros; best of the best; top tier; ultimate professional; player's player

noun:

• gambling mat (for dice games)
• altar mat for laying out offerings during the Bon festival

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sell out before the price falls (usu. shares); to sell at a profit

noun:

• Trump Effect; impact on business of the election of Donald Trump as US president

noun:

• moving shallow; spawning run; movement of fish from deep to shallow water during the spawning season

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ おおよそ
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

expression:

• if even the most crooked person is surrounded by good people, he will straighten up as does mugwort growing in a hemp field

adjectival noun / noun:

• inhuman; immoral; unreasonable; outrageous; wicked - archaism ➜ 無道

noun:

• (the crime of) barbarity (such as killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• large fan-shaped object held by an attendant and used to conceal the face of a noble, etc.

expression / auxiliary verb:

• auxiliary verb indicating the speaker's personal recollection or something they've heard (e.g. "was", "wasn't it?", "is said to have ...", etc.) - archaism

noun:

• Japan surgeonfish (Acanthurus japonicus, Indo-West Pacific species of tang found from Indonesia to the Philippines and Ryukyu Islands)