adverb:

• in general; on the whole; for the most part; by and large; almost all

noun:

• lecture (esp. special engagement by noted speaker); lecture meeting (event with one or more lectures)

noun:

• baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants

noun:

• a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate - four character idiom

noun:

• day-by-day record of a patient's condition; diary written while ill in bed

noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

noun:

• euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work ➜ 五月病・六月病

noun:

• state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

noun:

• distinctive body odor (odour) of the middle-aged and elderly (caused by the chemical nonenal) ➜ ノネナール

noun:

• brother complex; unnatural attachment to one's brother (esp. by his sister) - abbreviation ➜ ブラザーコンプレックス・シスコン
• black contemporary (music) - abbreviation ➜ ブラックコンテンポラリー

noun:

• agreement used to prevent unauthorized or faked divorce by couples in Japan in the future

godan ~る verb / transitive:

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

noun:

• (as opposed to those compiled later) ancient fudoki compiled by imperial order in 713 CE ➜ 風土記

~と adverb:

• sound effect for slurping back up excess saliva (e.g. as stimulated by desire for food) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• game in which one makes a big snowball by rolling it around in the snow

noun:

• water poisoning (in traditional Chinese medicine, illnesses caused by excessive water accumulation within the body)

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• wind drying; drying something by hanging it in a drafty place (e.g. fish)

noun:

• crown or head-ornament worn with formal or ceremonial clothes by nobility (ritsuryo system) - archaism

expression:

• by reading books you can count the wise philosophers of the past as friends (Mencius) - four character idiom

noun:

• persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story ➜ 泣き落とす

noun:

• (belief in) spiritual power possessed by sisters to protect their brothers (in the Ryukyu Islands)

noun:

• purple vestment (traditionally awarded by the imperial household); high-ranking priest's purple robe

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆