noun:

• (a Buddhist monk or priest or nun) without head shaven and not wearing religious garb - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• go into a huddle (over); hold a secret conference (about); put heads together and conspire - four character idiom

noun:

• harmony, respect, purity and tranquility; the four most important elements of the tea ceremony - four character idiom

noun:

• in company; among people ［じんちゅう］ ➜ 人中【ひとなか】
• philtrum; vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip - Anatomy term

noun:

• state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

noun:

• one of the accent patterns of Japanese words, with a rising and then falling pitch

noun:

• distinctive body odor (odour) of the middle-aged and elderly (caused by the chemical nonenal) ➜ ノネナール

noun:

• prefixed unit of measurement (i.e. millimeter, kilogram, etc.) - obsolete term
• supplementary SI unit (radian and steradian) ➜ 組立単位

noun:

• New Ainu Law (passed in 1997, aiming at promoting and protecting Ainu culture)

noun:

• type of leather belt worn with ceremonial court dress and decorated with a rhinoceros horn - obscure term

noun:

• sweetie (sweet green-skinned citrus; cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo); oroblanco

noun:

• collecting bones and remains (e.g. on a battlefield)
• putting cremated remains in an urn

noun:

• Achilles argument (i.e. Achilles and the tortoise; one of Zeno's paradoxes) ➜ ゼノンの逆説

noun:

• moon
• Tsukuyomi (god of the moon in Shinto and mythology)

noun:

• otaku car (painted with anime characters, loaded with figures and stuffed dolls, etc.) - colloquialism ➜ オタク・ヲタ車・痛車

noun:

• otaku car (painted with anime characters, loaded with figures and stuffed dolls, etc.) - colloquialism ➜ オタ車・ヲタク・痛車

noun:

• person at a public bath in charge of heating the water and filling the baths

noun:

• area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• man who is neither overly aggressive nor overly passive in pursuing sex and riches; omnivore [literal]

noun:

• something that smells of fish or blood ➜ 生臭い
• meat and fish ➜ 生臭物
• degenerate monk; corrupt priest - abbreviation ➜ 生臭坊主

noun:

• all pungs; winning hand consisting of four pungs or kongs and one pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• festival held on January 10 in honor of Ebisu, the god of fishing and commerce ➜ 恵比寿【えびす】

noun:

• cake salé; salty, unsweet pound cake (usu. incl. cheese and vegetables) - Food term - From French

noun:

• soup of dumplings filled with walnuts and brown sugar, boiled together with vegetables, tofu, etc. - Food term