noun:

• evening moon; moon that can only be seen in the early hours of the night (esp. from the 2nd to the 7th of the eight month) ➜ 夕月

noun:

• informal variant of a Chinese character; popular form of a Chinese character

noun:

• lamenting the passing of spring; lamenting the passing of one's youth

noun:

• slight cold; bit of a cold; touch of a cold; lingering cold

noun:

• 34th of the sexagenary cycle; thirty-fourth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla)
• Smilax china (species of sarsaparilla) - colloquialism ➜ 猿捕茨

expression:

• the law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction - Buddhism term

noun:

• rate of increase (e.g. prices); rate of climb (e.g. aircraft)

noun:

• maintaining the quality of a flower; lasting quality of a cut flower

noun:

• risk ratio; percentage of risk; hazard rate
• significance level; level of significance

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to chirp (of a swarm of insects); to sing
• to gather; to swarm

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• middle way; (golden) mean; moderation; middle path

noun:

• the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to coquet (of a woman); to entice a customer (of a prostitute)
• to flatter; to butter up

noun:

• world of tathata; "the pure and absolute truth of the tathata is as wide as the sea" [figurative] - Buddhism term

noun:

• deviation value (usu. scaled to mean of 50, standard deviation of 10, and often used for academic grades); deviation; T-score; standard score

noun:

• young underground market (the underground economy in goods and services, involving lots of barter and buying and selling of secondhand goods)

noun:

• construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• frame (i.e. of a sliding door)
• crosspiece; bar
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿
• rung (of a ladder)

noun:

• Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment) - Buddhism term

noun:

• flower arrangement in a built-up style
• placing salt by the entrance to one's establishment to bring good luck; such piles of salt ［もりばな］ ➜ 盛り塩
• seasonal peak of flowers ［せいか］

noun:

• someone unable to fulfil their shopping needs (esp. in areas of depopulation or due to lack of transport); people who have been cut off from the retail sector; shopping refugee [literal]

expression:

• honey is sweet, but the bee stings; I would like to taste fugu, but I value my life [literal]; hesitating from doing something because of fear of consequences - proverb ➜ フグ

noun:

• sleeping in a ship
• sleeping on the surface of the water (of a bird)
• restless sleep
• casually sleeping together (e.g. unmarried couple)