noun:

• the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms) ➜ 六道

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion - proverb

noun:

• dismissal of class (at the end of the day) ➜ 放課後
• recess (at school); break - Nagoya dialect

noun:

• waning gibbous moon; moon of the 19th day of the lunar month ➜ 臥待月

noun:

• mass; setting of the ordinary of the mass (Kyrie, Credo, etc.) - Music term

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the United States

noun:

• term used to refer to Japanese-American children (nisei) who were sent by their parents to Japan before WW2 to receive their schooling

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference

noun:

• lower reaches (of a river) Antonym: 上【かみ】
• bottom; lower part
• lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); urine; menses
• end; far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan)

~の noun:

• dirty (e.g. dirty jokes, etc.)

noun:

• loss-making business; company operating in the red

noun:

• Ailuridae; family containing the red panda

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

~する noun:

• blowing air into a dive mask through the nose to clear out the water or equalize the pressure - From English "mask blow" ➜ マスククリア

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree [literal] - from Mencius - proverb

noun:

• March 3rd of the lunar calendar (one of the five annual festivals); dolls festival; peach festival ➜ 五節句

noun:

• Minister of the Interior (669-1868 CE); Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945 CE) - archaism ➜ 内大臣

noun:

• voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)

noun:

• first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month) ➜ 閉炉

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of a gate
• (Edo-period) house confinement

noun:

• subordinate of a hired thief-taker (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 岡っ引き

noun:

• type of woman's hairdo (Edo period) ➜ 島田髷

noun:

• high-ranking retainer of a daimyo (Edo Period)

noun:

• puppet powered by (falling) water; water-powered contrivance; show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka)

noun:

• sound of the sea; sound of the waves
• sound of massed chanting of sutras, etc. - Buddhism term

noun:

• Eighth Route Army; 18th Army Group of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China

noun:

• chief of the general affairs department (bureau); chief of the executive section