noun:

• taking a wife by kidnapping a woman passing by on the road - archaism

noun:

• sleeveless ceremonial robe for samurai (replacing the Muromachi period suou) ➜ 素襖
• sleeveless robe worn by commoners - archaism

noun:

• semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths

noun:

• elm bark clothes traditionally worn by the Ainu; elm bark textile - From Ainu

noun:

• ominous place outside the human world; mysterious place where no human being lives; uninhabited area

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have a break in the conversation; to experience an awkward silence; an angel passes [literal] - from the French 'un ange pass' - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to chase after two hares; to try and do two things at the same time - idiom ➜ 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to color; to colour; to paint
• to touch up (by tracing the same image, letter, etc.)

noun:

• north
• the North; northern territories
• North Korea - abbreviation
• north wind - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• sweeping the sea for mines; dragging for mines

expression:

• if you do this; if this is the case

noun:

• lunar New Year (esp. the Chinese New Year)

noun:

• Western paper; paper manufactured in the Western manner ➜ 和紙

expression / noun:

• calm before a storm; lull before the storm

noun / ~する noun:

• books returned unsold; books returned to the library

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to extend the term; to extend a deadline

expression / ichidan verb:

• to summer; to go away for the summer - obscure term

noun:

• related (relevant) matters; matters relevant to the subject

noun:

• the first in history; only once in history - four character idiom

noun:

• customer appeal; the power to appeal to customers - four character idiom

noun:

• marmoset (esp. the common marmoset, Callithrix (Callithrix) jacchus)

expression / noun:

• third time lucky; third time's the charm - proverb

expression:

• as always; the same as it always is

noun:

• this thesis; this article; the article under consideration

noun:

• autumn eggplant; eggplant picked eaten in the autumn ➜ 茄子