expression:

• a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a thousand pieces of gold) - four character idiom

noun:

• tertian malaria (causing a fever that recurs every second day)

noun:

• arrow with feathers that curve to the right (the second of two arrows to be fired) ➜ 甲矢

noun:

• hunt (where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters)

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (bound victim sits cross-legged with their arms tied behind them, and the rope is tightened until their ankles touch their neck)

noun:

• soup with rice bran pickled or salted vegetables (e.g. carrots, daikon or potatoes) and fish (e.g. salmon, gadid or Arabesque greenling) boiled in a salty broth (sake lees is sometimes added) (Hokkaido local specialty dish) ➜ 糠漬け【ぬかづけ】

noun:

• Health and Sports Day (national holiday; second Monday in October); Health-Sports Day; Sports Day

noun:

• minor festival (held when there is no regular festival) ➜ 本祭り

noun:

• wait (until one is given permission)
• postponement; putting on hold

noun:

• loaner vehicle (e.g. from a garage which is repairing one's vehicle)

noun:

• Triaenodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the whitetip reef shark)

noun:

• the kalpa of existence (the second aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

noun:

• opening a door for a moment (esp. on the train, when someone's foot is stuck, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• requesting the testimony of an unsworn witness (who is not bound by perjury law)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• (most) important; principal; pivotal; key; cardinal

expression:

• not to be able to settle down (if something is not done); must (do something)

noun:

• position (where one is standing); place where one stands
• position (in society); status; role; station

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to win every battle (that is fought); to be ever victorious - obscure term

noun:

• transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another) ➜ 式年遷宮祭

noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) - Buddhism term

expression / auxiliary verb:

• auxiliary verb indicating the speaker's personal recollection or something they've heard (e.g. "was", "wasn't it?", "is said to have ...", etc.) - archaism

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

noun:

• silver (second-place) prize

noun:

• Newton's rings (interference pattern seen when a convex lens is placed on another surface)