noun:

• dripping liquid (soup, sauce, etc.) from the tips of one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma, species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark from the Western Pacific)

noun:

• the ten directions (north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, up & down)
• all directions; everywhere

noun:

• form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period) ➜ 猿楽

noun:

• Mahito (highest of the eight hereditary titles) - archaism ➜ 八色の姓
• you (referring to someone of lower status) ［まうと・もうと］

noun:

• Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3rd, the supposed day of his death)

suffix / adjective:

• (after a noun or the stem of an adjective) seeming very... (usu. with a negative connotation)

noun:

• turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae, esp. the Knysna turaco, Tauraco corythaix); touraco; loerie; lourie

noun:

• type of marriage where the man merely visits his wife without living with her; duolocal marriage

noun:

• threeblotched rabbitfish (Siganus trispilos, species of rabbitfish from the eastern Indian Ocean)

noun:

• Indian gold-ring bristle-tooth (Ctenochaetus truncatus, species of bristletooth tang native to the Indian Ocean)

noun:

• northern side house (to the rear of a main residence; often home to one's wife) ➜ 対の屋

noun:

• hot water (esp. cold mineral spring water heated up at the right temperature for bathing)

noun:

• Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ➜ 清談

noun:

• tasselled wobbegong (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon, sole species of the carpet shark genus Eucrossorhinus)

noun:

• convict surgeonfish (Acanthurus triostegus, species of the Indo-Pacific); convict tang; manini

noun:

• fully raising the curtain when an actor enters or exits (noh)
• curtain with a family crest

expression:

• Look for a big tree when you want shelter; Serve the powerful for your own good

~の noun / noun:

• unpromoted (piece) - Shōgi term

noun:

• limit orders that become market orders at the closing auction if not already executed

expression / noun:

• person of strong constitution unexpectedly falling ill; sickness of a stout man; the devil getting sunstroke [literal]

noun:

• wearing next to the skin (e.g. shoes without socks, trousers without underwear)

expression:

• wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog [literal] - idiom

noun:

• points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term

expression:

• no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after - after past tense verb ➜ かと思うと
• at the thought of; when I think about ➜ かと思うと

expression:

• no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after - after past tense verb
• at the thought of; when I think about