noun:

• Jōji era (of the Northern Court) (1362.9.23-1368.2.18); Teiji era

noun:

• Kakei era (of the Northern Court) (1387.8.23-1389.2.9); Kakyō era

suffix noun:

• month (of the year); used after number or question word (e.g. nan or nani)

noun:

• Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003)

noun:

• Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003) ➜ 有志連合

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)

noun:

• collectively, the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election ➜ 小泉チルドレン

noun / ~する noun:

• rationalization (modifying part of an irrational expression, esp. denominators, to exclude roots or irrational numbers) - Mathematics term

adverb / ~の noun:

• strongly hoping or requesting (of something that is difficult to be brought to fruition)

noun:

• distinctive body odor (odour) of the middle-aged and elderly (caused by the chemical nonenal) ➜ ノネナール

noun:

• prefixed unit of measurement (i.e. millimeter, kilogram, etc.) - obsolete term
• supplementary SI unit (radian and steradian) ➜ 組立単位

noun:

• fur coat (to protect against the cold)
• clothes made with the down of birds

noun:

• type of leather belt worn with ceremonial court dress and decorated with a rhinoceros horn - obscure term

noun:

• cardueline finch (any finch of subfamily Carduelinae, esp. the Eurasian siskin, Carduelis spinus)

godan ~る verb:

• to fabricate (stories) (based on alleged behaviour of the Asahi newspaper); to make up - slang - humorous term

noun:

• love of a knight for a courtly lady (upon which he is unable to act) - From German "Minne"

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - archaism ➜ 唐楽

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 左方の楽

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - obscure term ➜ 唐楽

noun:

• pholcid spider (any spider of family Pholcidae, esp. species Pholcus crypticolens)
• harvestman; daddy longlegs - colloquialism ➜ 座頭虫

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th) ➜ 祇園祭

noun:

• Imperial Declaration of Humanity (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; Jan. 1, 1946)

noun:

• Shuhari; three stages of learning mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, parting with traditional wisdom - Martial Arts term

noun:

• headliner
• latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed) ➜ 初座

noun:

• lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)