noun:

• active substance from plants used in manufacture of soap, detergents and medication - From German "Saponin"

noun:

• dead end
• tragic ending (e.g. of film)

noun:

• shop used for testing sales of new products - From English "pilot shop" ➜ アンテナショップ

noun:

• dangerous area; perilous road
• red-light district; house of ill repute; brothel ➜ 岡場所【おかばしょ】

expression / noun:

• glossy black (hair); color of a crow with wet feathers [literal]

noun:

• colophon (at the end of a book); imprint; publication information

noun:

• family tradition
• wind blowing from the direction of one's home ［いえかぜ］ - archaism

noun:

• Garuda or Garua (man-bird deity and 'vahana' of Hindu-Buddhist myth)

noun:

• set of dishes served on an individual tray for entertaining guests; banquet ➜ 懐石料理

noun:

• madness; insanity
• irregularity; deviation; being out of order

suffix noun / noun:

• fanaticism; fanatic; enthusiast; nut - usu. pronounced ぐるい as a suffix

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
• punctuation - abbreviation ➜ 句読点
• way of reading (esp. kanbun)

noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• wild uproar; pandemonium; clamor of voices; tumult - four character idiom
• noisy; uproarious; clamorous

noun:

• chum; pal
• dagger; stiletto ➜ 匕首
• unbalanced record of wins between two wrestlers - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• taking care of oneself (esp. used as an epistolary imperative)
• self-love

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Zhu Xi and his followers) ➜ 陽明学

noun:

• amorous glance; leer; ogle
• shade (of color); tint; hue
• ingratiation; sycophancy; toadying ➜ 色目を使う

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable - proverb

noun:

• flair; flash
• insight
• waving (e.g. of a flag in the wind)

expression:

• as a matter of fact; really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly; perfectly ➜ 全く【まったく】

adverb:

• earlier than usual; ahead of time; in good season

noun:

• child dying before parents - obscure term
• occurrence out of sequence; wrong order - orig. meaning - obscure term

noun:

• Tokai region of Honshu (incl. Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie and southern Gifu prefectures)

noun:

• dictionary tag indicating colloquialism, slang or vulgarity of American origin (in English)

noun / ~する noun:

• shapeshifting (of an animal or spirit); goblin; ghost; apparition; bugbear
• incarnation ➜ 権化
• transformation

adjectival noun / noun:

• innocent (esp. of a girl); naive; inexperienced

noun:

• virgin; maiden
• young striped mullet ➜ 鯔【ぼら】