noun:

• extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs)

noun / ~の noun:

• trunk (of the body); soma - Anatomy term

noun:

• central image (e.g. in a Buddha triad) - Buddhism term ➜ 三尊【さんぞん】・脇侍【きょうじ】

noun / ~する noun:

• drift (e.g. in frequency)

noun:

• elegant speech (esp. the use of the prefixes "o-" and "go- "); refined language; polite language ➜ 尊敬語・丁寧語

noun:

• whitecheek shark (Carcharhinus dussumieri, species of the Indo-West Pacific) ➜ ホワイトチークシャーク

noun:

• oryx (esp. the gemsbok, Oryx gazella)

noun:

• manual calling (e.g. in data network) - IT term

noun:

• spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)

noun:

• use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)

noun:

• ancient Chinese chromatic scale (primarily used in Japan for gagaku, etc.) ➜ 雅楽

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cross swords (with)

noun:

• Deneb (star in the constellation Cygnus); Alpha Cygni - Astronomy term

noun:

• rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity) ➜ 奥社

noun:

• bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis; esp. cultivars with white stalks); pak choi; Chinese cabbage - From Chinese ➜ チンゲンサイ

noun:

• Brachycome (genus of asters, esp. the swan river daisy, Brachycome iberidifolia); Brachyscome

noun:

• hardener (catalyst in hardening thermosetting materials)

noun:

• hijiki (dark edible seaweed usu. sold in dried black strips; Hizikia fusiformis)

noun:

• precepts given to an adherent prior to being consecrated as an Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 伝法灌頂・阿闍梨

noun:

• Japanese-style desk (short, used while sitting on the floor)

noun:

• mobilization of labor services (e.g. in wartime)

noun:

• caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to show one's age (e.g. to start creaking at the joints); to wear out (e.g. machinery) ➜ ガタガタ

noun:

• Control Faction (of the Imperial Japanese Army)