expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to flush bright red (e.g. of someone's face)

expression / adjective:

• fast; brisk
• careless; thoughtless; impudent; rash
• (of a woman) wanton; promiscuous

noun:

• sheathing (under thatched roofing) ➜ 桟【えつり】
• decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo)

noun:

• collision; overlapping (e.g. of two objects in a video game)

expression:

• poor speakers make long speeches; brevity is the soul of wit - proverb

noun:

• dish of duck meat cooked with cabbage, spring onions, tofu, etc.

noun:

• Fuji School (archaic name for the Nichiren Shoshu branch of Buddhism) - archaism ➜ 日蓮正宗

noun:

• dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment) - archaism ➜ 挨拶

noun:

• measure of length corresponding to 6 shaku (approx. 1.82 meters)

noun:

• Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, third weekend of May)

noun:

• qin and se (two different kinds of Chinese zither) ➜ 瑟・琴【きん】
• happy marriage

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony) ➜ 後の炭

noun:

• Semang people (Negrito ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula)

noun:

• alundum (material made of fused aluminum usu. used as an abrasive)

noun:

• Epiophlebia superstes (species of living-fossil dragonfly endemic to Japan)

noun:

• Beyrich's slit shell (species of sea snail, Pleurotomaria beyrichii)

noun:

• Beyrich's slit shell (species of sea snail, Pleurotomaria beyrichii) - obscure term ➜ 翁戎貝

noun:

• Sea-Monkeys (trademarked variant of brine shrimp) ➜ ブラインシュリンプ

noun:

• Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

noun:

• first-time adoption; initial application (e.g. of a new technology)

noun:

• film released direct-to-video (trademark of Toei Company) - From English "V-cinema"

suffix:

• leaf; petal; piece of paper; snowflake; something flat and thin

noun:

• Brassicaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the mustards

noun:

• slip (of paper)
• tag (usu. bamboo, wood, ivory, etc.); label

noun:

• democide; the murder of any person or people by a government