noun:

• deepest level (of an art, skill, etc.); secret teachings; mysteries; innermost secrets; the secret (of success, etc.)

noun:

• 10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November); late autumn; late fall ➜ 小春日和

noun:

• kyogen interlude; short scene during a noh play, performed by a kyogen actor (usu. explaining the play) ➜ 本狂言

noun:

• the three main gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children - Shintō term

expression:

• neither one thing nor the other; too short for a belt, too long for a sleeve tie [literal]

noun:

• male Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea) - colloquialism ➜ 精霊飛蝗
• Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust) - obsolete term ➜ 精霊飛蝗擬

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being both repellant and attractive at the same time; being both cute and disgusting - slang - colloquialism

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen [literal] - proverb ➜ 一円を笑う者は一円に泣く・一銭

expression:

• when one door is shut, another is open; the world is as kind as it is cruel - proverb

noun:

• chevron tang (Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis, species of bristletooth tang from the Pacific); black surgeonfish; Hawaiian kole; Hawaiian surgeonfish

noun:

• night mooring (for a boat) ➜ 夜泊
• sleeping away for the night (esp. in a red light district)

noun:

• left skirt of a kimono
• geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono) ➜ 芸妓

noun:

• morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 企業短期経済観測調査【きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• kyogen interlude; short scene during a noh play, performed by a kyogen actor (usu. explaining the play) ➜ 間狂言

noun:

• middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school ➜ 高等部

noun:

• dyeing of degummed silk; dyeing of raw silk at the same time as degumming

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one yen will cry at one yen [literal] - proverb

adverb:

• some time ago; the other day; at some time or other; once

noun:

• Song of Solomon (book of the Bible); Song of Songs; Canticle of Canticles

noun:

• ptarmigan (Lagopus muta, esp. the Japanese ptarmigan, Lagopus muta japonica); grouse

noun:

• forget-me-not (esp. the water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides)

noun:

• On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin, 1859); origin of species