noun:

• outermost enclosure of a castle or fortress (including the town around it)

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• snow remaining in the form of a mist after it has melted

noun:

• adult striped mullet ➜ 鯔【ぼら】

adverb:

• in the end; after all is said and done - abbreviation ➜ とどのつまり

expression / noun:

• page in the history books; historical (event); old news

noun:

• poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

noun:

• poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

noun:

• garment worn under the hanpi undergarment or hou robe in court ceremonial dress - archaism ➜ 半臂・袍

noun:

• container of fresh water for replenishing the kettle and rinsing bowls (tea ceremony)

noun:

• saomono; Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro) - abbreviation ➜ 棹物菓子

noun:

• Tarui accent, used in the Kinki region and parts of Hokuriku

noun:

• Osteichthyes; class comprising the bony fishes (and sometimes their descendants, i.e. tetrapods)

noun:

• person who administered religious rituals within the dazaifu jurisdiction (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 大宰府【だざいふ】

noun:

• purifying salt (thrown in the sumo ring before a bout, after funerals, etc.) ➜ 清めの塩

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence - abbreviation ➜ 民事介入暴力

noun:

• shower stool with a u-shaped hole in the middle

noun:

• monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate

noun:

• isocheim; isochime; isochryme; map contour connecting points with the same mean winter temperature

noun:

• diviner (esp. of the Yin and Yang system); sorcerer; exorcist; medium ➜ 陰陽道【おんみょうどう】

expression:

• hopelessly inaccurate; not even remotely close; can't hit the side of a barn - colloquialism

noun:

• festival celebrating the (temporary) transfer of a shintai away from its main shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun:

• Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant); IS; ISIL

noun:

• biopower; Foucault's term for the regulation by modern states of their subjects

~の noun:

• sultry; muggy; steamy; sticky; hot and humid ➜ むしあつい

noun:

• 6th month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• Distylium racemosum (evergreen tree of the winter-hazel genus)