noun:

• non-return-to-zero change-on-zeros recording; NRZ-0 - IT term

noun:

• top up (e.g. a little bit to remedy an insufficiency) ➜ 足しになる

noun:

• fireplace; mantlepiece - From French "cheminée" ➜ 暖炉・マントルピース
• chimney (narrow cleft used to climb a rock face) ➜ チムニー

noun:

• maneuver to draw a sword from its scabbard and cut immediately - Martial Arts term

expression:

• when you wish to be filial, your parents are gone - proverb

noun:

• dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment) - archaism ➜ 挨拶

noun:

• measure of length corresponding to 6 shaku (approx. 1.82 meters)

noun:

• person who goes to greet someone (e.g. at the airport) ➜ 送り人【おくりびと】

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony) ➜ 後の炭

noun:

• Epiophlebia superstes (species of living-fossil dragonfly endemic to Japan)

noun:

• Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

noun:

• film released direct-to-video (trademark of Toei Company) - From English "V-cinema"

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to raise (usu. one's shoulders, with a jaunty, swaggering effect)

noun / ~する noun:

• brushing

noun:

• blushing (blotchiness or milkiness in paint applied to a surface)

noun:

• hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca); haj; hadj; haji - From Arabic

noun:

• summer retreat where monks stay in the same place to study - Buddhism term

noun / adjectival noun:

• commonplace; ordinary; trite
• informal and easy to understand (of writing, etc.)

noun:

• person stranded due to mass transit disruptions after an earthquake, etc.

noun:

• seal used to open and associated with a bank account

noun:

• chocolate given to a friend (on Valentine's day)

noun / ~する noun:

• university graduate who has failed to find a high-paying job

noun:

• monks who practise austerity to the point of death and mummification

noun:

• Aulonocranus dewindti (cichlid fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika in E. Africa)

noun:

• Hydrolagus ogilbyi (species of cartilaginous fish endemic to Australia); Ogilbys ghostshark

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fall on one's shoulders (e.g. responsibility, duty)