noun:

• Borneo shark (Carcharhinus borneensis, species of requiem shark found in Borneo and China)

noun / ~する noun:

• reciting something and then recording it; recording of something that has been recited - obscure term

noun:

• sewing elastic; flat bands of elastic for sewing in cuffs, etc.

noun:

• traditional sake yeast mash starter; oldest surviving traditional style of sake making

noun:

• putting one's own interest ahead of one's party (for a politician) - play on 党利党略 ➜ 党利党略【とうりとうりゃく】

noun / expression:

• American joke; US joke; American sense of humor (humour)

noun:

• one's own way of thinking; one's independent approach - male language

noun:

• final chapter; last chapter; last section (of a book, essay, song etc.); epilogue

noun:

• abrupt plot change; unexpected story development; story development from out of left field - colloquialism

noun:

• Edo chrysanthemum; variety of chrysanthemum originally cultivated in Edo
• China aster (Callistephus chinensis) ➜ 蝦夷菊

noun:

• garb of love; metaphor for love kept as close to one as clothing - poetical term

noun:

• sweetfish sushi; ayu sushi; belly of sweetfish salted, pickled and served on rice

noun:

• giant crape-myrtle (Lagerstroemia speciosa); Queen's crape-myrtle; banabá; Pride of India

noun:

• black beard
• type of noh mask with a black beard and protruding chin

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• shadow; silhouette; figure; shape
• reflection; image
• ominous sign
• light (stars, moon)
• trace; shadow (of one's former self)

suffix noun:

• depending on
• as soon as; immediately (upon) - often after the -masu stem of a verb
• in accordance with

noun:

• order; program; programme; precedence
• circumstances; course of events; reason

noun / suffix noun:

• direction; orientation; aspect; exposure

suffix noun:

• suited to; suitable for; designed for

noun:

• tendency; inclination
• nature (of a request or desire)
• person

noun:

• advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; ideologue

suffix noun:

• -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system)

noun:

• socialist; communist; anarchist - archaism

noun:

• study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture
• provincial school (under Japan's ritsuryo system and pre-Sui Chinese law) - archaism ➜ 大学

particle:

• indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
• indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)

conjunction:

• but; however; still; and
• regardless of; whether (or not) - after the volitional form of a verb

noun:

• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)
• evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• living a life of leisure with dignity; living quietly and comfortably free from worldly cares; otium cum dignitate - four character idiom

noun:

• night chat; tale told at night
• evening tea party (starting around 6 pm) ［よばなし］

noun / suffix noun:

• book of informal essays ［やわ］

noun:

• shop used for testing sales of new products; showroom - From English "antenna shop" ➜ パイロットショップ
• shop selling local specialities to Tokyo