noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• happy trail (line of hair from the navel to the genitals); pubic hair

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a good eye (from having seen fine art, etc.); to be a connoisseur ➜ 肥える

noun:

• Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant)
• paper made from the fibre of this plant - abbreviation ➜ 雁皮紙

noun:

• Indian Ocean mimic surgeonfish (Acanthurus tristis, species of tang from the Indian Ocean)

noun:

• type of fast military boat used from the Warring states period until the Edo period - archaism

noun:

• semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths

noun:

• retired husband syndrome; stress syndrome resulting from one's husband being at home

noun:

• horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows

noun / ~する noun:

• generation-to-generation instruction from master to disciple - four character idiom

noun:

• taxi equipped with a meter (from "meter taxi") - obscure term

expression:

• the greatest hate proceeds from the greatest love - proverb

noun:

• wisdom obtained from meditation - Buddhism term
• wisdom and meditation - Buddhism term

noun:

• rising intonation; upward inflection
• rising (sales, tendency, etc.); getting better; improvement
• feet-first somersault hanging from the horizontal bar ➜ 逆上がり

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun / ~の noun:

• those (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener, or something understood without naming it directly) ➜ 彼【あれ】
• they (of people) - used to refer to one's equals or inferiors - archaism

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• slender unicorn (Naso minor, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from Mozambique to the Philippines); blackspine unicornfish; little unicorn

noun:

• person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans

noun:

• short arched (traditionally bamboo) fence around walls of traditional townhouses, esp. in Kyoto (protects lower walls from fouling or damage)

noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• full flush; winning hand containing only tiles of one suit - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• homogeneity (e.g. manuf. using products from one source)

noun:

• poor who do not (or are unable to) seek help (from relatives or the authorities, etc.) - From English "silent poor"

noun:

• early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian - From Portuguese "cristao"