expression:

• doing one's own flower arranging
• marrying or making a mistress of a geisha

noun:

• day-by-day record of a patient's condition; diary written while ill in bed

noun:

• training partner
• training hall (esp. one made of wooden planks and used for dancing practice)

noun:

• ritsuryo system (ancient East Asian system of centralized governance; in Japan: esp. 7th-10th century) ➜ 律令

noun:

• paper, cloth, wood, etc. representation of a sacred object
• paper doll used in purification rites - Shintō term

noun:

• crime of conscience
• premeditated crime; act carried out while knowing that it should not be - originally considered an incorrect usage - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature

noun:

• (a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom) - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)

noun / ~する noun:

• rationalization (modifying part of an irrational expression, esp. denominators, to exclude roots or irrational numbers) - Mathematics term

adverb / ~の noun:

• strongly hoping or requesting (of something that is difficult to be brought to fruition)

noun:

• prefixed unit of measurement (i.e. millimeter, kilogram, etc.) - obsolete term
• supplementary SI unit (radian and steradian) ➜ 組立単位

noun:

• type of leather belt worn with ceremonial court dress and decorated with a rhinoceros horn - obscure term

noun:

• love of a knight for a courtly lady (upon which he is unable to act) - From German "Minne"

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - archaism ➜ 唐楽

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 左方の楽

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - obscure term ➜ 唐楽

noun:

• pholcid spider (any spider of family Pholcidae, esp. species Pholcus crypticolens)
• harvestman; daddy longlegs - colloquialism ➜ 座頭虫

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress

noun:

• western wobbegon (Orectolobus hutchinsi, species of carpet shark from Western Australia)

noun:

• clouded monitor (Varanus nebulosus, species of diurnal carnivorous monitor lizard native to South-East Asia)

noun:

• West African spadefish (Chaetodipterus lippei, species of Eastern Atlantic spadefish found from Senegal to Angola)

noun:

• outdoor party where guests cook various types of vegetables (esp. in Tōhoku); stewed potato party [literal]

noun:

• Protectorate General of Annam; Han-period Chinese office established in Hanoi in 622 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• underboob; bottom of a woman's breasts (visible when wearing a short top) - slang ➜ オッパイ