noun:

• night soil pail

noun:

• volcanic ash soil

noun:

• rich soil

noun:

• volcanic ash soil

noun:

• soil science; pedology

noun:

• kokedama; moss ball; plant grown in a ball of soil covered in moss, held together with string

noun:

• dregs; sediment; grounds; meal
• lees (esp. sake) - often 粕
• leftovers; by-product
• worthless item; thing of little to no value
• dregs (e.g. of society); scum; dross
• card only worth 1 point (in hanafuda) ➜ カス札

noun:

• university; college ➜ 総合大学
• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) - abbreviation ➜ 大学寮・国学【こくがく】
• the Great Learning (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

noun:

• night of the full moon; the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month

noun:

• (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom

noun:

• advertising the excellence of one's wares; boasting; self-advertisement
• statement of the virtues of a medicine; description of the virtues of a drug ➜ 効能書き【こうのうがき】

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

noun:

• the milk of human kindness of the people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods - four character idiom

noun:

• flat part of the top of the cranium
• plate-like depression on the head of kappa ➜ 河童

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

noun:

• heaven of the thirty-three; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 四天王・六欲天

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• climate of the third month of the lunar calendar in Okinawa (end of the dry season); early summer

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th) ➜ 七十二候

expression / adverb:

• in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs

noun:

• Budget Committee of the lower house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) - abbreviation ➜ 参院予算委員会