noun:

• Kōō era (of the Northern Court) (1389.2.9-1390.3.26)

expression:

• one's true purpose lying elsewhere; the enemy is at Honnoji [literal] ➜ 本能寺の変

noun:

• ten important Rinzai temples, second in significance to the Kyoto Gozan - obscure term

noun / ~の noun:

• eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

noun:

• rumbling stomach; noise from gas moving inside the digestive tract; borborygmus; rugitus

noun:

• posthumous name (based the deeds one has performed in their lifetime) ➜ 贈り名

noun:

• fashionable hairstyle, particularly to attract members of the opposite sex

adverb / ~する noun:

• shrill whistling sound - onomatopoeia
• reddening or brightening slightly
• rush of blood to the head

noun:

• sending food to someone's house on the night of a wake

noun:

• thrusting down one's opponent either inside or outside the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)

noun:

• woman who is obsessed with the education of her children

noun:

• rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)

prefix:

• indicates the target of an activity; -ee (e.g. employee, examinee, trustee)

noun:

• sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (Mar. 20, 1995)

noun:

• Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust) ➜ 精霊飛蝗

noun:

• larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish) - sometimes read ごんどうくじら - obscure term ➜ 巨頭鯨

noun:

• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - Buddhism term

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• towering; lofty - archaism
• standing out without the influence of others; in splendid isolation

noun:

• criminal conspiracy (participation in the planning a crime, but not its execution)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pierce something all the way through (with a lance, arrow, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• Arcturus (star in the constellation Boötes); Alpha Bootis - Astronomy term

noun:

• dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term

noun:

• degenerative eye disorder caused by cloudiness in front of the pupil - obscure term ➜ 底翳

noun:

• any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits) - obscure term ➜ 鶺鴒
• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) ➜ 時鳥