noun:

• Alan Smithee (pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project); Allen Smithee

expression:

• like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)

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:

• brother complex; unnatural attachment to one's brother (esp. by his sister) ➜ ブラコン

noun:

• kombucha; drink of northern Chinese origin made by fermentation of sweetened tea - not related to 昆布茶

noun:

• Vocaloid; singing voice synthesis software and related products, or a humanoid persona voiced by such software

noun:

• dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms ➜ 玉繭

noun:

• helicopter money; stimulating the economy by distributing newly printed money to consumers - Economics term

noun:

• government property
• taxes and other fees paid by the provinces to the governement (ritsuryo system) ［かんもつ］

expression:

• time flies; like watching a white horse run by through a gap in the wall (Zhuangzi) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• ginjō sake; high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60% - abbreviation ➜ 吟醸酒

noun:

• daily employment; hiring by the day; day laborer; day labourer

noun:

• heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge
• great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth

yodan ~ふ verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to serve (by a superior's side) ［候ふ］ - archaism

auxiliary verb / yodan ~ふ verb (archaic):

• to be - auxiliary used in place of ある after で or に when forming a copula - archaism - polite language
• to do - auxiliary used in place of ます after a -masu stem - archaism - polite language

noun:

• Shōwa restoration; Showa restoration; call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• every month; monthly; month by month

~する verb (spec.):

• to divide (by)
• to remove; to exclude

expression / adverb:

• one by one; one after another

adverb / ~の noun / noun:

• two at a time; two by two; in twos

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• take the world by storm; to hold sway over the minds of the people

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんす・吉原言葉

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to put into written form; to communicate or express by writing; to chronicle

noun:

• hakama fashioned in the style of the pantaloons worn by the Portuguese - From Portuguese "calção" ➜ 袴

expression:

• year after year; as the years go by; with each passing year

noun:

• Hakke Shinto (Shinto tradition transmitted by the House of Hakuo Shirakawa); Hakuke Shinto