noun:

• layering; placing a large amount of orders and cancelling before they are executed (with the intent of manipulating the market) - Finance term

noun:

• burn mark; grilled surface (e.g. on a steak)

noun:

• menu; list of meals (e.g. for the week) ➜ メニュー

noun:

• civet; stew of a game animal, red wine and various alliums (often thickened with the animal's blood) - Food term - From French

noun / ~する noun:

• rise and fall; frequent fluctuations (of the market price) - four character idiom

noun:

• estate; homestead; house and land (it stands on); messuage

noun:

• suguha; straight temper line (on a sword)

noun:

• Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan) ➜ 二十四史

noun:

• krill; euphasiid (any species in the family Euphausiacea)

noun:

• modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)

noun:

• divine mirror; sacred mirror (one of the three sacred treasures)

noun:

• funeral Buddhism; (reliance on) Buddhism only for funerals - four character idiom

noun:

• seamanship; (the art of) navigation

expression:

• one never knows (what will happen); there's no telling (what the future holds)

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to advise strongly; to insist (on something) ➜ しろと言う

noun:

• school route; street for students going to and from school (esp. on foot)

noun:

• weight (of a fishing net); sinker (on a fishing line)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to advise strongly; to insist (on something)

noun:

• cotyledon; seed leaf (i.e. the first leaves to emerge when a seed sprouts)

noun:

• Buddhist missionary, esp. in Jodo, Pure Land, etc. sects; Buddhist minister (in the West)

noun:

• higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox) ➜ 江戸彼岸
• double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula) - colloquialism ➜ 江戸彼岸

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air)

noun:

• (at) our expense; (on) our risk - four character idiom

noun:

• ghost; revenant; spirit (of the dead); departed soul