noun:

• record (of legal proceedings in a court)

godan ~る verb:

• to fabricate (stories) (based on alleged behaviour of the Asahi newspaper); to make up - slang - humorous term

noun:

• water bottle (of a monk, nun, etc.); flask - Buddhism term
• vase - archaism

noun:

• blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus, species of requiem shark common in the western Atlantic)

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to find a food one likes by rummaging in one's dish, pot, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• Naso (genus of tropical marine surgeonfishes in the family Acanthuridae known as unicorn fishes due to a spike protruding from the forehead)

particle:

• by (indicating means of action); as (a group, etc.) ➜ からして・として・にして・為る
• indicates patient of a causative expression - as 〜をして in modern Japanese
• acts as a connective - after the ren'youkei form of an adjective
• adds emphasis - after an adverb or a particle

conjunction:

• and then ➜ そして

noun:

• Chinese lespedeza (species of bush clover, Lespedeza cuneata) - archaism ➜ 蓍萩
• fortune-telling (using divination sticks)

noun:

• sweeping over (e.g. of a natural disaster); engulfing
• sweeping victory; clean sweep

noun / ~の noun:

• self-contained (of a story)

suffix noun:

• month (of the year); used after number or question word (e.g. nan or nani)

noun:

• Solanum (nightshade genus of plants)

noun:

• exchange and consolidation (of lands)

noun:

• protective covering for a book (often in the form of a folding case with clasps)

counter:

• counter for book covers

noun:

• six-year secondary school (type of school introduced in the 1998 revision of the Japanese School Education Law)

expression / adjective:

• flexible (of people); open-minded ➜ 頭が柔らかい

noun:

• Aspasma minima (species of clingfish)

noun:

• the new left (school of thought)

noun:

• sophist school (of philosophy) ➜ ソフィスト

noun:

• breast meat (usu. of chicken); breast; white meat

noun:

• Tendai Shinto (alt. name for Hie Shinto: a form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai) - obscure term ➜ 日吉神道

noun / adjectival noun:

• (an explanation, advice, etc. being) kind, careful, and thorough; thoughtful and scrupulous - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• concentration (of light, e.g. with lens or mirror); condensation; condensing

noun:

• shift (of workmen)

noun:

• closest pine-tree to a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)