noun:

• clipping off the beginning of a speech transmission - IT term

~の noun:

• gentlemanly; gentlemanlike; in the manner of a gentleman

noun:

• bergschrund (crevasse near the head of a glacier) - From German

suffix:

• the n-th generation head of a family ➜ 代【だい】・当主

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become a thing of the past

noun:

• celebration for the completion of a project

noun:

• single pattern on the entirety of a garment

noun:

• shape of the lingering snow on a mountainside ➜ 雪占

expression:

• salutation at the end of a formal letter - archaism

noun:

• wind coming from the top of a mountain ➜ 山颪【やまおろし】

noun:

• skin stretched on the sides of a biwa ➜ 琵琶【びわ】

noun:

• treasure ship
• picture of a treasure ship bearing the Seven Gods of Good Fortune

noun:

• resting one's chopsticks across the top of one's bowl (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• chamber; room
• home of a monk; monk ➜ 坊・坊
• Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・蒼竜【そうりょう】

noun:

• female student or graduate of Waseda University
• woman who allegedly pursues a career at the expense of love, feminine interests, etc. - derogatory term

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

noun:

• Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica); Japanese fleeceflower; Mexican bamboo; Polygonum cuspidatum; Reynoutria japonica

noun:

• children's game in which the aim is to occupy the other's home base
• taking a place; securing a position

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅

noun / ~の noun:

• flowers in full bloom; time of year in which flowers are in full bloom
• the age at which someone (esp. a woman) is at the peak of their beauty
• booming or peaking (in popularity)

expression:

• no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness [literal] - proverb

noun:

• modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)

noun:

• Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes); Japanese puffer; tiger puffer

noun:

• thin Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper); Japanese tissue ➜ 厚様

noun:

• Schlegel's Japanese gecko (Gekko japonicus); Japanese gecko