expression:

• appearances can be deceiving; don't judge a book by its cover - proverb

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• ura-nage (in judo, an over-the-head throw performed by rolling backwards) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright

noun:

• type of conical hat that covers the whole head (used by Komuso monks) ➜ 笠・虚無僧

adverb:

• gradually; by degrees - obscure term ➜ 段々・漸次
• the sight of a tall soaring rock - obscure term
• crying; weeping - obscure term

noun:

• female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow ➜ 巫女【みこ】・口寄せ

noun:

• curtained sleeping platform in shinden-style residences (used by people of high rank) ➜ 寝殿造り・帳台

noun:

• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

noun:

• long cloak worn by soldiers, students, etc. (Meiji period)

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• (sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole - obsolete term

noun / ~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• large pile of rocks
• open-heartedness; not being bothered by unimportant things ➜ 磊落

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence - abbreviation ➜ 民事介入暴力

noun:

• merchant guild entrusted by the shogunate to manage its respective trade (Edo period)

noun:

• biopower; Foucault's term for the regulation by modern states of their subjects

noun:

• TeX; typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth - IT term

noun:

• ceremonial tasting of wedding cake by bride and groom - From English "first bite"

noun:

• 1585 edict by Toyotomi Hideyoshi which banned war between feudal lords in Japan

interjection:

• hey; cheers; used by young people when drinking or as a greeting

noun:

• goalkeeper - abbreviation - Sports term ➜ ゴールキーパー
• goal kick - abbreviation - Sports term ➜ ゴールキック
• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges) - abbreviation - slang ➜ 合コン

noun:

• sastrugi; parallel wave-like ridges formed on a snow surface by the wind

expression / noun:

• thanking another driver by flashing one's hazard lights - colloquialism - From English "thank you hazard"

conjunction:

• by the way; incidentally
• even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how) - after the plain past form of a verb