noun:

• Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)

noun:

• countries that currently use Chinese characters in their writing, or have used in their recent past - abbreviation ➜ 漢字文化圏【かんじぶんかけん】

noun:

• dharma mandala (in Shingon); mandala were each deity is represented by its seed syllable in Sanskrit - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

noun:

• Japanese pampas grass (Miscanthus sinensis); silver grass; zebra grass

noun:

• magnolia (Magnolia obovata); Japanese big leaf magnolia

noun:

• court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)
• female servant for a samurai family
• lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

noun:

• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, i.e. the Dorian mode) ➜ 呂旋

noun:

• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian (Enchin, Engyō, Ennin, Eun, Jōgyō, Kūkai, Saichō, and Shūei) ➜ 八家

noun:

• wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria

noun:

• plain form (of a Japanese verb or adjective); dictionary form; predicative form - Linguistics term

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to put; to place
• to leave (behind)
• to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
• to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
• to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc)
• to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
• to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
• to separate spatially or temporally

godan ~く verb / auxiliary verb:

• to do something in advance - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
• to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone

noun / suffix noun:

• quotient - Mathematics term ➜ 積
• dealing; dealer; store
• second degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• Shang (dynasty of China) ➜ 殷

noun:

• reading-book; reader; guidebook; manual ➜ 入門書
• textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook) - original meaning

noun:

• seven delicious flavors (flavours)
• blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.); shichimi - abbreviation ➜ 七味唐辛子

noun:

• (Japanese) electoral system allowing for the election of from 3 to 5 candidates from one district ➜ 大選挙区制

noun:

• var. of fresh Japanese sweet made of white bean paste, egg yolk, sugar and rice granules

noun:

• Japanese hymn praising the coming of the Buddha (thought to be written by Minamoto No Makoto) - Buddhism term ➜ 和讃【わさん】・来迎【らいごう】

noun:

• writing from top to bottom
• writing without a pause
• translation of classical Chinese into Japanese - abbreviation ➜ 書き下し文

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• absorbed in; immersed in; crazy about; obsessed with; devoted to

noun / adjectival noun:

• forgetting oneself; daze; trance; ecstasy; delirium

noun:

• within a dream; while dreaming

expression:

• matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation)
• our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)

noun:

• set of problems (e.g. in a textbook) in which previously learned skills are applied to real world situations; practical assessment

noun:

• game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture

noun / ~する noun:

• unwinding of funds transfer obligations; requesting a bank to return money that was transferred (e.g in error or in excess)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• drop-by-drop; dripping; dribbling; in a trickle - onomatopoeia
• incessantly (esp. speaking, e.g. complaints, compliments); in great profusion - onomatopoeia

noun:

• second in command
• fourth athlete to compete in a 5-on-5 team competition (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】