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)

noun:

• Achilles argument (i.e. Achilles and the tortoise; one of Zeno's paradoxes) ➜ ゼノンの逆説

noun:

• beriberi ➜ 脚気【かっけ】

noun / ~する noun / ~と adverb:

• tearing off something stuck on the surface of something else (e.g. duct tape) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• moon
• Tsukuyomi (god of the moon in Shinto and mythology)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress

noun:

• skipping grades; the act of entering a new school as a non-first-year student

noun:

• chronixis surgeonfish (Acanthurus chronixis, Western-Pacific species of tang from Kapingamarangi in the Caroline Islands)

noun:

• tasselled wobbegong (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon, sole species of the carpet shark genus Eucrossorhinus) ➜ タッセルドウォビゴン

noun:

• western wobbegon (Orectolobus hutchinsi, species of carpet shark from Western Australia)