noun:

• maneuver to shake, flick, or wipe blood off of a sword - Martial Arts term

expression:

• a bad person does not deserve to die in his own bed - proverb

expression:

• rushing to one's doom; (like a) moth flying into the flame - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• adding or removing rolling stock to a train that is in service

noun:

• animated film released direct-to-video - From English "original video animation"

godan ~む verb:

• to include in a poem (season word, place name, etc.)

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• guaranty; guarantee
• fee paid to performing artists, etc.

noun:

• bonus paid to sports people for excellent performance - From English "talent money"

noun:

• pharmacy (esp. one without facilities to prepare their own medicines); drugstore; chemist

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to spend all of one's time in idle amusement

noun:

• "ear-hanging" scallop spat, i.e. piercing the resilium to string them

noun:

• telegram sent at night (usually to make use of a reduced rate)

noun:

• four-eye pygmy goby (Trimma hayashii, found from Japan to the Solomons)

noun:

• cloudy catshark (Scyliorhinus torazame, species found from Japan and Korea to Taiwan)

noun:

• perentie (Varanus giganteus, largest species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia)

noun:

• mother (fungal colony used to start fermentation); starter culture; seed fungus

noun:

• cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子

noun:

• fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east) ➜ 九星

noun:

• sixth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and north-west) ➜ 九星

noun:

• eighth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and north-east) ➜ 九星

noun:

• agnosia (loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells)

expression / noun:

• withered trees and frozen rocks; "a person that is hard to approach" [figurative]

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007 ➜ だらだらかげろう景気