noun:

• stinger (of a bee, etc.)
• needle covered with poison - only どくばり

noun:

• Dharma seals; three marks of existence (suffering, impermanence, non-Self)

noun:

• new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period

noun:

• list of 1,006 kanji taught in Japanese primary schools ➜ 常用漢字・当用漢字

noun:

• parison (first small bubble at the end of a blowpipe)

expression:

• dexterous feat; speed and precision of a trained hand

noun:

• box for shipping seafood (usually made of styrofoam)

noun:

• coloured curtains hanging from the eaves of a Buddhist temple

noun:

• Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group)

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of the verb "kuru"

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of the verb "kuru" - abbreviation ➜ カ行変格活用

noun:

• the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo - Buddhism term

adverb:

• with a single flash of light; glitteringly; sparklingly; twinklingly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• championship; defense (e.g. of a position in debate); apologetics

expression / auxiliary adjective:

• always; forever - after the -te form of a verb ➜ 止む
• very; greatly (esp. of hopes and desires)

noun / ~の noun:

• stirrup (bone of the ear); stapes

noun:

• isinglass; gelatin made from swim bladders of fish

noun:

• area where a string of nuclear power plants are located - four character idiom

noun:

• eye of a needle
• hole ［針孔］ - dialectal ➜ 穴【あな】

noun:

• closed shop system (employment of only union members) ➜ オープンショップ制

noun:

• one run of a television series - From English "one cours" ➜ クール

noun:

• two runs of a television series - From English "two cours" ➜ クール

noun:

• the sound of one hand clapping (a classic Zen koan) ➜ 公案

noun:

• corpus spongiosum (body of penile erecile tissue surrounding the urethra)

noun:

• crane fly; daddy longlegs (insect of family Tipulidae)