noun:

• scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer); scapulomancy; spatulamancy; armomancy - archaism

noun:

• Festival of the Ages (held at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto on Oct. 22); Jidai Festival

noun:

• truth of the middle (all things are in a middle state, being void yet having temporary existence) - Buddhism term ➜ 三諦

noun:

• hand; arm - polite language ➜ 手
• handwriting; penmanship - honorific language

interjection:

• 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand) ➜ お代わり

noun / ~する noun:

• bashing; fierce criticism

noun:

• busing (catering); bussing; removing dirty plates, cutlery, etc. from a table in a restaurant

noun:

• breaking up a match (on the decision of the referee, in boxing, etc.) - From English "referee stop"

noun:

• Edo-era street merchant who carried wares hanging from a pole, hawking them in the street - obscure term

noun:

• sugidama; ball made from sprigs of Japanese cedar, traditionally hung in the eaves of sake breweries

noun:

• Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis, species of circumtropical requiem shark found in the reef environments around oceanic islands)

noun:

• Platax (genus of 5 extant species of Indo-Pacific batfish in the spadefish family Ephippidae)

noun:

• playing cards bearing proverbs in the traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary

noun:

• home in which a woman stays during her period (or while giving birth) - archaism
• period; menstruation; menses - archaism

expression:

• when kids get in a fight, their parents come to their aid; yelping curs will raise mastiffs - proverb

interjection:

• welcome; come in; response to a visitor at one's house who has asked to be shown inside - used by samurai families - archaism ➜ 頼もう【たのもう】

adverb:

• completely (quitting, etc.); entirely; thoroughly; totally; wholly; without hesitation - onomatopoeia
• cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.); in a single blow - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Special Permission to Stay in Japan; residence status that can be granted to illegal immigrants or overstayers

noun:

• Special Permission to Stay in Japan; residence status that can be granted to illegal immigrants or overstayers - abbreviation ➜ 在留特別許可

noun:

• incense which supposedly allows the spirit of a departed loved one to be seen in the smoke

noun:

• first day (in the year) that a particular species of bird or insect, etc. sing or chirp ➜ 終鳴日

noun:

• last day (in the year) that a particular species of bird or insect, etc. sing or chirp ➜ 初鳴日

adverb:

• even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is ➜ 唯でさえ

~と adverb / adverb:

• deeply immersed (in water, mud, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• pushing something deep inside a soft object - onomatopoeia
• very drunk - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• soaked with water - onomatopoeia

noun:

• being unable to discern good food from bad; poor person's taste (in food); unsophisticated palate - colloquialism

noun:

• hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds) ➜ 下町・山手【やまて】
• place near the mountains ➜ 山手【やまて】

noun:

• Galapagos phenomenon; Galapagos syndrome; tendency of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) to be designed specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species ➜ ガラパゴス化