noun:

• kami celebrated at the beginning of New Year (usu. to pray for a good harvest) ➜ 神【かみ】
• goddess of (lucky) directions ➜ 歳徳神

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】・ピー柿【ピーかき】

noun:

• under-shoulder swing-down; technique of grasping the arm of the opponent, the moment he comes forward, while stepping out of line and pushing down on the shoulder blade with the other hand, thus pulling him down - Sumo term
• dodging; parrying (questions) ➜ 肩透かしを食わせる【かたすかしをくわせる】
• disappointment; letdown

prefix noun:

• (of) Japanese descent

noun:

• non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin - abbreviation ➜ 日系人
• company, etc. set up with Japanese capital; company managed by Japanese or non-Japanese of Japanese descent

noun / prefix:

• both (e.g. both shoulders, etc.)

noun:

• ryo (obsolete unit of currency)
• 41-42 g (one sixteenth of a kin) ➜ 斤
• 2 tan (measure of fabric size) ➜ 反【たん】

counter:

• counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles - also written 輛 and 輌

noun:

• weather; look of the sky
• situation; turn of affairs; signs; way the wind is blowing

noun:

• reverberation; swelling (of a hymn); trailing note
• lingering memory; aftertaste
• suggestiveness (of a book, poem, etc.)

noun:

• snap (e.g. of the wrist in baseball)
• snapshot (esp. of people) - abbreviation ➜ スナップショット・スナップ写真
• snap fastener; press stud ➜ ホック

noun / ~する noun:

• ending the climbing season; closure of a mountain to climbers
• closing a mine; discontinuation of mining

noun:

• Menshevik; member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party - From Russian "Men'sheviki" ➜ ボルシェビキ

noun / ~する noun:

• running aground; stranding ➜ 座礁
• being disabled (of a tank, train, etc.); being put out of action

noun:

• shallow clogs (worn by nobles; originally made of leather, later made of black lacquered paulownia)

noun:

• provincial governor (under the ritsuryo system, any of a group of officials, esp. the director) ➜ 守【かみ】

noun:

• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill

noun:

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations, 1948)

noun:

• scarab (Egyptian gemstone) - From French "scarabee"
• scarabeid (any of a group of beetles including the scarab beetle, Scarabeus sacer)

noun:

• deluded mind (a mind polluted with klesha, incapable of understanding the original essence of things) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

noun:

• tiger's tail
• gooseneck loosestrife (species of flowering plant, Lysimachia clethroides) ➜ 岡虎の尾
• Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort) ➜ 虎の尾羊歯

noun:

• Lushan Conference (1959 meeting of the Communist Party of China to discuss the Great Leap Forward)

noun:

• Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi (heavenly gathering of clouds sword; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

noun:

• Grand Council of State (1868-1885 CE) ［だじょうかん・だいじょうかん］
• Department of State (under the ritsuryo system) - usu. だいじょうかん ➜ 律令制

noun:

• art project which is done in place of a graduation thesis at a college of arts ➜ 卒制

noun:

• Hydrolagus barbouri (species of cartilaginous fish found in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea)