noun:

• Sunna (collection of recorded words and actions of the prophet Muhammad); Sunnah - From Arabic "sunna"

noun:

• open shop system (employment of both unionists and non-unionists) Antonym: ユニオンショップ制

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)

noun:

• Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869)

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• dialects of Japanese spoken in Western Tottori prefecture and Eastern Shimane prefecture ➜ 出雲弁

noun:

• boa catshark (Scyliorhinus boa, species from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico)

noun / adjectival noun:

• young orphan - archaism
• being alone and weak with no place to go to - archaism

noun:

• period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform ➜ 大化の改新

noun:

• Treaty of Shimoda (1855); treaty initiating official relations between Russia and Japan

noun:

• Shughni (language spoken in Pamir mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan)

noun:

• break and run out in billiards (9 ball, 8 ball, etc.).

noun:

• clouds appearing before the wind starts to blow
• winds and clouds - esp. かぜくも ➜ 風雲【ふううん】

noun:

• pot dish with white flesh fish and shottsuru sauce (Akita regional dish) ➜ 塩汁【しょっつる】

noun:

• rasbora (small minnow-like fish of genera Boraras, Microrasbora, Rasbora, and Trigonostigma)

noun:

• flag used at funerals showing the name and rank of the deceased

expression / noun:

• different suitabilities; being cut out for certain things (and not for others)

expression:

• the world is at peace; bows in bags and swords in sheaths [literal] - proverb

noun:

• shirt with white cuffs and collar; cleric shirt

expression / noun:

• people who partied flamboyantly in Harajuku, etc. in the 70s and 80s

noun:

• mobile website; website oriented to smartphones and tablets - IT term

noun:

• chuno sauce; semi-sweet sauce made from fruit and vegetables

noun:

• three large cities (esp. Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the Edo period)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to put on top of another
• to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

expression:

• excuse me for disturbing (interrupting) you; greeting used when entering someone's home