noun:

• Achilles tang (Acanthurus achilles, species of surgeonfish found from the Western Pacific to the East Central Pacific)

noun:

• doing something for the first time (ever, in a season, etc.) - polite language ➜ 初【はつ】
• new item; first crop of the season

noun:

• painting with the body of a brush's bristles (to create a thicker line than possible with the tip) ➜ 直筆【ちょくひつ】

expression:

• one cannot understand even a holy man's teachings without study; one cannot know the abilities of a great man without putting him to use; one cannot know the delicious taste of fine food without eating it [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• entering the rainy season; beginning of the rainy season

noun:

• agapanthus (esp. the African lily, Agapanthus africanus); lily-of-the-nile - From Latin

expression:

• that night; that evening
• over the course of the evening

expression:

• poverty is the greatest motivator; poverty is the mother of invention - proverb

noun:

• the world; society; the universe
• sphere; circle; world

~の noun:

• renowned; world-famous; well-known outside of Japan

noun:

• realm governed by one Buddha; space - original meaning - Buddhism term

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜

expression:

• the blind leading the blind; if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch - proverb

noun:

• credit - abbreviation ➜ 掛け売り・掛け買い
• money owed on an account; bill
• hot noodles in broth - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 掛け蕎麦【かけそば】・掛けうどん【かけうどん】

noun / suffix noun:

• proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price)

suffix:

• in the midst of - after a -masu stem
• rest; rack; hanger - after a noun

noun:

• layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
• local manners; modern customs

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• common; popular
• vulgar; low Antonym: 雅【が】

noun:

• postcards with the bottom third of the front side reserved for an advertisement, and sold at a lower cost than regular postcards

noun:

• shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; shelf (i.e. "on the shelf") ➜ 蔵【くら】
• rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate

noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

noun:

• false science; science out of line with the world of thought

noun:

• facets (aspects) of (human) life; the pattern of (one's) life - four character idiom

noun:

• on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse - four character idiom

noun:

• the pacific side of Japan; eastern sea
• of or about Japan

noun:

• moon of the 13th day of 9th lunar month - archaism ➜ 十三夜
• leap month ➜ 閏月

noun:

• common talk; talk of the town; words of many people

noun:

• cult of the open air; pleinairism; pleinairisme
• painter of pleinairisme; pleinairist

noun:

• resistance - From French
• popular resistance against a military invasion (especially of that by the French against the Nazis in World War II)

noun:

• Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang) ［こくふ］ - abbreviation ➜ 国民政府
• provincial office (under the ritsuryo system); provincial capital ➜ 律令制