noun:

• Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor) - abbreviation ➜ 紫微垣

noun:

• vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) - Buddhism term

noun:

• commune (of medieval Europe) ➜ 自由都市

noun:

• Chola Dynasty (of India, approx. 848-1279 CE)

noun:

• four-in-hand (type of necktie)

noun:

• (crime of) assembling with dangerous weapons

noun:

• dracaena (any palmlike tree of genus Dracaena or Cordyline) - From Latin ➜ 竜血樹

noun:

• presenter (e.g. of a paper); speaker

noun / ~する noun:

• statement (of a carefully reasoned logical argument); dissertation; enunciation; setting forth

noun:

• Alcyone (star in the constellation Taurus, brightest of the Pleiades); Eta Tauri - Astronomy term

noun:

• foreign dog (esp. of Chinese origin) - obscure term

noun:

• sound-producing organ (i.e. speech organs of mammals, wings of insects)

noun:

• Koga Faction (of the LDP)

noun:

• Camellia japonica 'Wabisuke' (cultivar of common camellia)

noun:

• handwritten abbreviation (of kanji)

noun:

• stern (of a warship)

noun:

• artist (of computer game) - IT term - From English "graphic-er"

noun:

• Omphalius pfeifferi pfeifferi (subspecies of top shell)

noun:

• Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm) ➜ 岩虫

noun:

• lower reaches (e.g. of a valley); downstream sector

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "on" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 訓仮名【くんがな】・万葉仮名【まんようがな】

noun:

• porcupine (any mammal of suborder Hystricomorpha)

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow (of moss, etc.)

noun:

• arranger (of music)

noun:

• Rubus croceacanthus (species of raspberry)