noun:

• Church of Perfect Liberty (religious group founded in Japan in 1924) ➜ パーフェクトリバティー教団

noun:

• the Nika riots which took place in 532 in Constantinople

noun:

• earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Jomon-period Japan) - archaism ➜ 耳当

noun:

• Shughni (language spoken in Pamir mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan)

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion - archaism ➜ 御殿女中・奥女中

noun:

• work in a Zen temple (e.g. cleaning, working in the fields) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Rikuentai; anti-shogunate army formed in Kyoto in 1867 by Nakaoka Shintaro

expression / ~する noun:

• leaping over multiple steps in stairs (e.g. when in a hurry) - as ２段飛ばし, ３段飛ばし, etc.

noun:

• mochikinchaku; glutinous rice in a pouch of fried tofu, used in oden ➜ 巾着【きんちゃく】

expression:

• the world is at peace; bows in bags and swords in sheaths [literal] - proverb

noun:

• chakra; centers of spiritual power in the human body, in Indian thought - From Sanskrit

expression / noun:

• people who partied flamboyantly in Harajuku, etc. in the 70s and 80s

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be soaked in; to be flooded; to be submerged
• to be immersed in (joy, memories, alcohol, etc.); to give oneself over to; to bask in

noun:

• native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音【おん】

noun / suffix:

• precept; lesson; one's teachings ➜ 処世訓【しょせいくん】

noun:

• proprietress (of a traditional Japanese inn or restaurant); landlady; hostess; mistress

noun:

• nageire (casual or nature-imitating style of Japanese floral arrangement)

noun:

• se (Japanese unit of area equal to 30 tsubo, ~99.174 m.sq.) - obsolete term ➜ 畝【ほ】

noun:

• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

noun:

• ancient Japanese characters (regarded today as created at a much more recent date)

noun:

• hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry

noun:

• melody or flushing sound played by a Japanese toilet to mask excretion sounds

noun:

• Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata)

noun:

• var. of traditional white, uncreased Japanese paper, made from high-quality mulberry wood ➜ 奉書

noun:

• neckband; round upright collar (on some traditional Japanese clothing)

noun:

• Japanese, Chinese and Western (e.g. when referring to food styles available, etc.)