noun:

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

noun / ~する noun:

• barré (chord in guitar technique) - From Spanish "ceja"

noun:

• cover story (in a magazine); cover article

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• bright (esp. of the moon)
• broad and empty ［こうこう］

noun:

• punching (e.g. with a die)

noun:

• short flute piece (in kyogen; usu. a lively solo)
• flute and drum music played after each act but the last (in kabuki) - also written as 砂切

noun:

• long slits (esp. the eyes)

noun:

• last call (in bar, restaurant, etc.); last order

noun:

• form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period) ➜ 猿楽

noun:

• "limit of heat" solar term (approx. Aug. 23, when the weather is said to start cooling down) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• marbled sole (Pleuronectes yokohamae) (esp. caught in Beppu bay) ➜ 真子鰈【まこがれい】

noun:

• white sake (presented as an offering to the gods) - archaism ➜ 黒酒

noun:

• plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (dyed with botanical pigments found on the island)

noun:

• young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony)
• young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute)
• younger partner in a homosexual relationship ➜ 念者【ねんしゃ】

noun:

• chairperson (head) (of the department of psychology)

noun:

• ladies' pavilion (of the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be able to see (oft. used in the negative) ➜ 見える【みえる】・目【め】

expression:

• (in spite of) being old enough to know better

noun:

• subsidiary adjective (in Japanese); auxiliary adjective - Linguistics term

expression / adjective:

• speechless (with amazement); struck dumb; tongue-tied; dumbfounded

noun:

• stork (esp. the Oriental stork, Ciconia boyciana)

noun:

• anti-Japanese resistance movement (in pre-WWII China); anti-Japanese campaign

noun:

• (in the stock market) short commitment

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to dunk (e.g. food in a drink); to dip

noun:

• Rhincodon (genus of one species of whale shark, Rhincodon typus, in the family Rhincodontidae)