expression:

• too late (by a short time); just failed (by a small margin) - colloquialism Antonym: ギリギリセーフ ➜ ぎりぎり・アウト

noun:

• Folk Shinto (term used by Reform Shintoists to refer to sects of syncretized Shinto) ➜ 復古神道

ichidan verb:

• to cook (esp. grains such as rice, by boiling); to finish cooking

noun:

• black silk or paper triangle worn over the forehead (usu. worn by children)

noun:

• positive law (i.e. law made by humans) - Law term ➜ 自然法

noun:

• Earth light (illumination of the moon by light reflected from the Earth); earthshine

noun:

• free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

noun / ~する noun:

• (killing by) poison

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to mature (esp. by fermentation); to ripen (e.g. wine, cheese); to be properly aged; to become seasoned
• to rot - archaism

noun:

• witch's milk (milk secreted by some neonates)

noun:

• solar tide (tides caused by the Sun)

noun / ~する noun:

• creative evolution (as proposed by Henri Bergson)

noun / ~する noun:

• universal illumination (esp. in Buddhism, by the dharma-body) ➜ 法身

noun:

• habit (garment worn by nuns, monks, friars, etc.)

noun:

• far point (farthest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye) ➜ 近点【きんてん】
• apoapsis - Astronomy term ➜ 近点【きんてん】

expression:

• (I) won't (say) anything no matter what (expression is followed by negative verb relating to say, answer, etc.) to not (tell) even under any threat ➜ 口が裂けても言えない【くちがさけてもいえない】

noun:

• kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards) - archaism
• (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu ➜ 布衣【ほい】

pronoun:

• you (often used by a wife addressing her husband) - slang ➜ あんた

noun:

• protest advertising (on an issue by a pressure group)

noun:

• Tachibana Shinto (Edo-period sect of Suika Shinto popularized by Mitsuyoshi Tachibana) ➜ 垂加神道

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ そんな

noun:

• type of jōruri (dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen) ➜ 浄瑠璃

noun:

• carbine (short gun used by cavalry) ➜ カービン

noun:

• Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki) ➜ 下関条約

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking metal against stone) - obscure term