noun:

• Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System; CAPTAIN System

adjectival noun / noun:

• dainty; delicate; slender; slim and elegant
• fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail

noun:

• hair tied behind and hanging down; long flowing hair

noun:

• jiangshi; Chinese hopping vampire; reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore - From Chinese "goeng-si"

noun:

• battledore and shuttlecock game (played at the beginning of the year)

noun / adjectival noun:

• with no physical defects; in perfectly good health; sound in wind and limb - four character idiom

noun:

• salt and pepper hair; dark hair streaked with gray

noun:

• for ever and ever; (through) eternity; countless ages; till the end of time - four character idiom

expression:

• losing everything; coming to nothing; having lost the interest and the principal

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• flickering; flashing on and off; twinkling; glittering - onomatopoeia
• glaringly (bright); painfully (bright) - onomatopoeia
• prickling (pain) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• ponzu (Japanese sauce made primarily of soy sauce and citrus juice)

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Issues of Okinawa and Northern Territories

expression:

• there are exceptions to every rule; rocks will flow and leaves will sink [literal] - proverb - obscure term

conjunction:

• indicates two contrasting actions - form: ...つ...つ ➜ 浮きつ沈みつ・追いつ追われつ

particle:

• indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words) - archaism

expression:

• see Nikko and die; don't say "wonderful" until you've seen Nikko [literal] - proverb ➜ ナポリを見てから死ね

noun:

• guardian deity of the three jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝
• three-person saddle

noun:

• Yoshida Shinto; fusion of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism stressing traditional Japanese elements

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teaching of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) - obscure term ➜ 宋学

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens) ➜ プリムラ

noun:

• Ksitigarbha statue erected to help deliver miscarried and aborted fetuses to buddhahood (foetuses) ➜ 地蔵

noun:

• school route; street for students going to and from school (esp. on foot)

noun:

• combined living room, dining room and kitchen

noun:

• Kannon (Boddhisattva); Kwannon; Avalokitesvara (bodhisattva of mercy and salvation); Guan Yin; Kuan Yin - Buddhism term ➜ 観音菩薩【かんのんぼさつ】・観音【かんのん】

noun:

• mochi filled with red bean paste and topped with green soy flour ➜ 餅【もち】・餡・青きな粉

noun:

• married couple's insurance (i.e. life-insurance policy covering husband and wife)