noun:

• chevron tang (Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis, species of bristletooth tang from the Pacific); black surgeonfish; Hawaiian kole; Hawaiian surgeonfish

noun:

• night mooring (for a boat) ➜ 夜泊
• sleeping away for the night (esp. in a red light district)

noun:

• left skirt of a kimono
• geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono) ➜ 芸妓

noun:

• morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 企業短期経済観測調査【きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• kyogen interlude; short scene during a noh play, performed by a kyogen actor (usu. explaining the play) ➜ 間狂言

noun:

• middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school ➜ 高等部

noun:

• dyeing of degummed silk; dyeing of raw silk at the same time as degumming

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one yen will cry at one yen [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be turned up; to be lifted up (e.g. by the wind)

suffix / godan ~く verb:

• to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...

godan ~く verb:

• to jerk off; to masturbate - vulgar - colloquialism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into

adverb:

• some time ago; the other day; at some time or other; once

noun:

• Song of Solomon (book of the Bible); Song of Songs; Canticle of Canticles

noun:

• ptarmigan (Lagopus muta, esp. the Japanese ptarmigan, Lagopus muta japonica); grouse

noun:

• forget-me-not (esp. the water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides)

noun:

• On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin, 1859); origin of species

noun:

• being something of an artist; having something of the artist in one - four character idiom

noun:

• being something of a politician; having something of the politician in one - four character idiom

expression:

• room to breathe (usually in the negative as "no room to breathe") ➜ 立錐の余地もない

noun:

• guardian deity of grain farming; guardian deity of the rice harvest

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to find oneself in deep trouble; to be deep in the shit ➜ 土壺【どつぼ】

expression:

• out with the demon, in with fortune; devils out, good luck in - recital chanted on Setsubun during the bean-scattering ceremony ➜ 豆まき・節分