noun:

• buttonwood tree (the American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis); buttonball tree ➜ アメリカ篠懸の木

noun:

• correct practices (esp. in Jodo, the path to rebirth in paradise) - Buddhism term ➜ 助業・浄土宗・正定業

expression:

• be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth - from Genesis 1:28 - proverb

noun:

• clandestine Christian (during the Tokugawa period); secret Christian

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• drearily; with desolation; with loneliness (esp. the rain and wind)

noun / ~する noun:

• winning one's first election; being elected for the first time

expression / ichidan verb:

• to advance to the next stage (e.g. in a tournament)

noun:

• seine fishing (usu. from the beach); dragnet fishing ➜ 地引網

noun:

• castle on a hill in the plains; flatland-mountain castle ➜ 平城【ひらじろ】・山城【やまじろ】

noun:

• geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) - colloquialism ➜ 辰巳芸者

noun / ~する noun:

• falling due to a strong wind; being toppled by the wind

noun / ~する noun:

• standing guard; watchman

noun:

• watchman at the shogun's palaces (Edo period)

noun:

• chair seat; chair seating (as opposed to sitting on the floor)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to attack a routed enemy; to sink the boot into

noun:

• disposition to operate in the red; tendency to have chronic deficits

noun:

• jacana (esp. the pheasant-tailed jacana, Hydrophasianus chirurgus); lily-trotter

godan ~る verb:

• to boil down sake, mirin, etc. to reduce the alcohol content

expression / noun:

• unexpectedly strong rain (for the region, etc.); sudden rain ➜ ゲリラ

noun:

• unexpectedly strong snowstorm (for the region, etc.); sudden snowstorm ➜ ゲリラ

noun:

• Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident)
• ocean; sea

prefix:

• foreign; Western; European

expression:

• really laughing my ass off; extreme rolling on the floor laughing - slang ➜ テラワロス・ワロス

noun:

• Kinosternidae; family comprising the mud turtles and musk turtles

noun:

• loess; yellow sand; bai; dust from the Yellow River region (China) ➜ 黄砂【こうさ】

noun:

• large war sword (carried across the back); extra-long sword ➜ 野太刀【のだち】

noun:

• commander (during the Sengoku period); military leader; general; admiral; military strategist - Military term ➜ 軍配・戦国時代