noun:

• Oregon pine (another term for the common Douglas fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii) ➜ 米松

noun:

• taiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, incl. time and space)

noun:

• day in the near future when a major event is expected to occur - colloquialism - From English "X-day"

noun:

• Ming & Xing-era Chinese music (as popularized in Japan before the First Sino-Japanese war) ➜ 清楽・明楽

noun:

• framing (e.g. a picture)
• flaming; hostile and insulting interaction between persons over the internet

expression:

• in wine there is truth; being under the influence doesn't change our true character - proverb

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to arrive - slang ➜ 出待ち

noun:

• longnose sawtail cat shark (Galeus longirostris, found in Amami-oshima, the Ogasawara and Izu islands)

noun:

• long, thin, roofless small boat (used as a river taxi during the Edo period)

noun:

• place where one spends the night to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction - the へ is pronounced as え in this word - archaism ➜ 方違え・方塞がり

noun:

• outset; beginning; starting (things) ➜ 手始め
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil

noun:

• laws established by daimyo applicable only in their own domain (during the Warring States period) ➜ 戦国大名

noun:

• pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure ➜ 島田【しまだ】

noun:

• koto erected in one's yard as decoration during the Festival to Plead for Skills - archaism ➜ 乞巧奠

noun:

• literary style from the Heian era onwards, often mainly in kana and written by women

expression:

• talking so fast that even a four-horse coach cannot catch up to the words

noun:

• game similar to rock, paper, scissors, with the hand gestures fox, hunter and village headman

noun:

• flamberge; sword with undulations in the blade - From French or German

noun:

• paper-covered frame put over a hearth or brazier to make the fire last longer

noun:

• young woman who uses the first person pronoun "boku" - manga slang ➜ オレっ娘

noun:

• getting big laughs just from appearing on the stage (or screen, etc.) ➜ 落ち

noun / ~する noun:

• reading but not responding to a text message (in the chat application LINE) - colloquialism ➜ スルー

suffix noun:

• samurai receiving this much rice as a fee - after a quantity
• offering of rice cake containing this much rice
• person receiving this amount of money as a salary - obsolete term

adverbial noun / noun:

• now; the present time; just now; soon; immediately; (one) more