noun:

• soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl

noun:

• Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun:

• Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) - colloquialism ➜ 穂咲の総藻
• aquatic plants such as hornwort that are commonly used in goldfish tanks, etc.

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions ➜ カメコ

noun:

• eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi) - archaism - obscure term ➜ 八色の姓

expression:

• whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events

noun:

• traditional work song of Hokkaido herring fishery workers, performed by school students in modern choreographed interpretations

noun:

• spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei, a shortnose chimaera found in the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• 1927 Theses; Comintern policy documents regarding capitalism, imperialism, and a possible revolution in Japan

noun:

• Scatophagidae; family containing four species in two genera of small Indo-Pacific fish commonly called scats

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物

noun:

• mooncake; disc-shaped confection of wheat-flour dough filled with bean paste, usu. eaten during Autumn in China

noun:

• word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...") - e.g. 申し訳ありませんが、あいにく ➜ クッションワード

noun:

• Far East Command; FEC; United States military headquarters in the western Pacific after World War II

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to get mad; to be highly offended; to get pissed off; to get angry; to lose one's cool

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to awaken; to arouse from sleep
• to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of)
• to sober up
• to dampen; to throw a damper on; to spoil ［醒ます］ ➜ 冷ます【さます】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to get mad; to be highly offended; to get pissed off; to get angry; to lose one's cool - abbreviation ➜ 頭にくる

noun / ~する noun:

• thought; thinking; contemplation; consideration - esp. しい
• using wisdom to get to the bottom of things; focusing one's mind; deep contemplation; concentrated thought; deliberating; pondering; reflecting - esp. しゆい - Buddhism term

noun:

• rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance ➜ 大手【おおて】
• one who arrests
• force attacking the rear of a castle ➜ 大手【おおて】
• (opponent's) weak point

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to bide one's time; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持する

noun:

• twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)