noun:

• restoration of imperial rule; (in English history) the Restoration - four character idiom

noun:

• territories in the vicinity of the capital and under direct imperial rule; (in Japanese history) the five kuni in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto

noun:

• negative question; question asked in the negative (e.g. "Can't you read Japanese?") - Linguistics term

noun:

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

noun:

• frog (esp. the wrinkled frog or Asian grass frog); toad (esp. the Japanese toad) - colloquialism

noun:

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

noun:

• contracted sound; palatalised sound (e.g. Japanese morae with small kana) - e.g. きゃ - Linguistics term

noun:

• fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月

noun:

• garden eel; conger eel (esp. the common Japanese conger, Conger myriaster)

noun:

• Japan; the (Japanese) empire

noun:

• Kokumin Shinto; People's New Party (Japanese political party) - abbreviation ➜ 国民新党

noun:

• New Party Daichi; New Party Big Earth (Japanese political party)

noun:

• Kokumin Shinto; People's New Party (Japanese political party)

noun:

• sudoku; number place (orig. English name) ➜ 数独

noun / ~の noun:

• animated film; animated cartoon; anime (when referring to Japanese cartoons)
• animation - abbreviation ➜ アニメーション

noun:

• obsolete word; old proverb; ancient (Japanese) language

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal] - idiom

noun:

• rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)

noun:

• rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore) ➜ 轆轤首

noun:

• cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.) ➜ ウォームビズ

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; sika deer and maple leaves (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal]

noun:

• var. of folksong; var. of koto or shamisen music; medley of (Japanese) songs

noun:

• brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus)
• Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis) ➜ 石斑魚
• Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster) - colloquialism ➜ 井守
• dysentery - colloquialism ➜ 赤痢

noun:

• bamboo growing along a river bank
• Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake
• Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• prostitute; the life of a prostitute - archaism