adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• about the middle (of an era)

noun:

• middle lobe (right lung); median lobe (prostate) - Anatomy term

noun:

• Momoyama period (latter half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1583-1600 CE) ➜ 安土桃山時代

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to linger (faint light of twilight); to remain lit in the lingering twilight ➜ 明け残る

noun:

• strong feelings of loyalty to one's old school; the old school tie - four character idiom

noun:

• any shark of genus Centrophorus (esp. the dwarf gulper shark, Centrophorus atromarginatus)

noun:

• Iranian (any member language of the Iranian language branch, esp. Farsi)

noun:

• Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)

noun:

• return of government (to Kyoto); making former capital (esp. Kyoto) the capital again

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be away from home; to be out of the house

noun:

• Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets (2013); Secret Information Protection Act

noun:

• cause; factor
• hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions) - Buddhism term ➜ 縁【えん】
• the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya) ➜ 因明

noun:

• all worldly phenomena; meritorious acts leading to enlightenment - Buddhism term
• (Jodo school) all practices other than recitation of the nembutsu prayer

noun:

• chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora); sea cradle
• Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)

noun:

• redundant keigo (i.e. improper use of the -rareru honorific form together with an honorific verb such as ossharu)

noun:

• form of torture in which the victim kneels on triangular wedges and stone slabs are placed on their lap

noun:

• blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific)

noun / ~の noun:

• black tip - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• smalleye hammerhead (Sphyrna tudes, species of hammerhead shark common in the western Atlantic)

noun:

• Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands

noun:

• standing by at home (e.g. to prevent the spread of illness)
• being on furlough; being temporarily laid off

noun:

• luo han guo (Siraitia grosvenorii); herbaceous perennial vine native to China and Thailand; fruit of the Siraita grosvenorii

expression / noun:

• lost twenty years [literal]
• period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991 and not over in the 2010s

noun:

• pouring hot water on oneself before entering the bathtub; hot water poured on oneself before entering the bathtub
• pouring hot water on oneself repeatedly (type of hot-spring cure)

noun:

• driver (of a vehicle)
• screwdriver - abbreviation ➜ スクリュードライバー
• driver (golf)
• driver; device driver - IT term

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• to pamper; to make a fuss of; to spoil; to fawn over - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• kun reading; kun'yomi; native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音読み