noun:

• celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)

noun:

• intricately inscribed ancient bronze or iron mirror featuring a pair of firebirds - obscure term ➜ 鳳凰

adverb:

• gradually; by degrees - obscure term ➜ 段々・漸次
• the sight of a tall soaring rock - obscure term
• crying; weeping - obscure term

noun:

• female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow ➜ 巫女【みこ】・口寄せ

noun:

• pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or temple

noun:

• monkey (esp. a gibbon)
• hand of the puppeteer (puppet theatre) ➜ 人形浄瑠璃
• menstrual period - slang
• kappa ➜ 河童

noun:

• outermost enclosure of a castle or fortress (including the town around it)

noun:

• Chinese name for a high government office (ritsuryo period)
• alias; pseudonym ［からな］ - archaism

noun:

• downloadable content (e.g. for a video game); DLC - From English "download contents"

noun:

• snow remaining in the form of a mist after it has melted

noun:

• reading a text from start to finish
• transliterating classical Chinese into Japanese ➜ よみくだす

noun:

• traditional Chinese cold remedy (a medical powder with antipyretic and diaphoretic effects) - archaism

noun:

• man-made water channel (e.g. round a castle); artificial trench; moat - archaism

noun:

• (sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole - obsolete term

noun:

• fashion style for young women invoking a soft, forest-like feeling

noun:

• telephone card etc. with a misprint or other error - From English "error card"

noun:

• purifying salt (thrown in the sumo ring before a bout, after funerals, etc.) ➜ 清めの塩

noun:

• shower stool with a u-shaped hole in the middle

expression / adjective:

• being dealt a bad hand (in mahjong, card games, etc.) - idiom
• poor (handwriting) - idiom
• unscrupulous - idiom

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan - sensitive

noun:

• personalised page within a web based client interaction system - From English "my page"

noun:

• dragon-like cryptid fish with many whiskers and no bones (likely a sturgeon) ➜ 蝶鮫

noun:

• solitary confinement in a dark cell without bedding (for up to one week)

expression:

• hopelessly inaccurate; not even remotely close; can't hit the side of a barn - colloquialism

noun:

• thin green spring onion shoots (esp. minced as a condiment) - Food term