noun:

• suicide survivor (i.e. family member of somebody who has committed suicide); survivor of suicide

noun / ~の noun:

• some; any; (a) little; of some kind; of some sort

adverb:

• please
• anyway; anyhow; at any rate; after all

noun:

• (pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home
• door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era) ➜ 穴窯

noun:

• big crunch (theoretical reversal of the big bang resulting in the demise of the universe)

noun:

• eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness) - Buddhism term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make full use of (skill, experience, authority, etc.); to take full advantage of (something); to rely on ➜ 物を言う【ものをいう】

noun:

• black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to incur the wrath of god (e.g. by speaking ill of somebody behind their back); to get into trouble
• to warp one's mouth

noun:

• (Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

noun:

• parhelion; sun dog; sundog (bright spot on either side of the sun caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻月

noun:

• paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻日

noun:

• grand kagura performance at Ise
• type of performance including the lion dance and juggling ➜ 雑芸
• Camellia japonica 'Daikagura' (cultivar of Japanese camellia) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 椿

noun:

• nipplefruit (Solanum mammosum); apple of Sodom; titty fruit; cow's udder - From English "foxface"
• foxface (Siganus vulpinus, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish); fox face; fox-face - From English "foxface"

noun:

• Thompson's surgeonfish (Acanthurus thompsoni, species of Indo-Pacific tang whose Indian Ocean population lacks the white caudal fin of the Pacific variety)

noun:

• Azuma coat; type of coat worn over a kimono; popular in the middle of the Meiji era

noun:

• reading classical Chinese aloud without trying to understand the meaning
• reading a kanji compound using the Japanese pronunciation of each of its characters

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering - four character idiom

expression:

• great human beings never lose the innocence of childhood; a virtuous ruler never loses the spirit of the common people - from Mencius - proverb

noun:

• cost of fuel and lighting; cost of heat and electricity; energy bill; utility cost

noun:

• collar; lapel; neckband; neck
• nape of the neck; scruff of the neck

expression:

• in comparison with; when compared with; according to; in light of; in view of ➜ に照らすと

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be disgusted with; to run out of patience; to fall out of love

noun:

• two departments (under the ritsuryo system: the Dept. of State & the Dept. of Worship) ➜ 律令制

expression:

• in comparison with; when compared with; according to; in light of; in view of ➜ に照らして