noun:

• band of warriors (often formed from related or dependent families); group of samurai

noun:

• (approx.) 12 o'clock (am or pm); noon; midnight - archaism

noun:

• printed figures (on cloth or pottery)

noun:

• artificial food (fabricated to resemble rare or expensive foods)

noun:

• (fish or vegetables) pickled in sake lees

noun:

• treating someone (to food or drink); entertaining someone (as one's guest) - archaism

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ くっつき虫

noun:

• bi (ancient Chinese artifact; flat jade or glass disc with a circular hole in the centre)

noun:

• modern koto (in contrast to the gagaku koto or gakuso); modern koto music ➜ 楽箏

adjectival noun:

• concerning the result (as opposed to the means used to achieve this result or the original goal)

noun:

• single crime consisting of multiple independent crimes (i.e. robbery, which consists of theft and threats or use of violence)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to trick someone (into confirming or revealing the truth); to ask a leading question - idiom

noun:

• high knee (exercise drill where one brings one's knees up high while walking or running)

adjectival noun:

• mellow (flavor or fragrance, esp. alcohol); rich; full-bodied; superior

noun:

• linga (phallus or phallic object); lingam - From Sanskrit

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

noun:

• last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th) - Buddhism term ➜ 弔い上げ

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox) - obscure term ➜ 宇賀神

noun:

• conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "e" or "u" for every conjugation)

noun:

• karesansui, traditional (Chinese or Japanese) dry landscape garden - obscure term

noun:

• green flash (optical phenomenon occurring shortly after sunset or before sunrise)

noun:

• getting big laughs just from appearing on the stage (or screen, etc.) ➜ 落ち

noun:

• plain form (of a Japanese verb or adjective); dictionary form; predicative form - Linguistics term

suffix / adjective:

• (after a noun or the stem of an adjective) seeming very... (usu. with a negative connotation)

noun:

• sense of distance (physical or emotional); feeling of distance