noun:

• dorayaki; dessert sandwich of two small sweet pancakes and red bean paste - Food term ➜ 餡こ【あんこ】

noun:

• Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

noun:

• ornament
• dead body used to test a blade
• unlicensed prostitute who always works out of the same cathouse

expression / adjective:

• (so ashamed or embarrassed that) one does not know where to put oneself; feeling out of place

noun:

• Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun:

• starfish; sea star; asteroid; any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea
• northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)

noun:

• six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions ➜ カメコ

noun:

• stupa-shaped stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one cho (approx. 109 meters) on a temple approach ➜ 町石

noun:

• traditional work song of Hokkaido herring fishery workers, performed by school students in modern choreographed interpretations

noun:

• flies; area over the stage of a theater (containing overhead lights, drop curtains, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• 1932 Theses; Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems

noun:

• bench (i.e. for bathroom); seat; small piece of furniture upon which one can sit on ➜ 腰掛け

noun:

• Scatophagidae; family containing four species in two genera of small Indo-Pacific fish commonly called scats

noun:

• rectangular bugaku mask made of thick paper and white silk with facial features drawn on it ➜ 舞楽

noun:

• thin cedar or cypress shingles (4.5-6 mm thick, used for shingling roofs of temples, shrines, etc.)

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物

noun:

• mooncake; disc-shaped confection of wheat-flour dough filled with bean paste, usu. eaten during Autumn in China

noun:

• Dutch disease; decline in a country's manufacturing sector owing to increased exploitation of natural resources - Business term

noun:

• all terminals; winning hand consisting of only ones and nines as pungs or kongs plus a pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• scorch; burn; scorching
• burnt rice ➜ お焦げ【おこげ】
• part of ceramic glaze that has become dark or darkish-brown during firing

noun:

• miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke ➜ 片山貝

noun:

• opponents having won an equal number of sets (tennis, ping-pong); set count tied - Sports term - From English "set all"