noun:

• (in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song ➜ 序破急

noun:

• (stare or glare with) scornful eyes; reproachful eyes; disgusted eyes - manga slang

noun:

• auspicious characters (used in people or place names)

noun:

• chief abbot (of a Buddhist temple)

noun:

• rare (or peculiar) animal

noun / ~する noun:

• creating a statue (esp. a Buddhist statue) - obscure term

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡

adjective:

• smelling (or tasting) burnt

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior) - idiom

noun:

• yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram) ➜ 卦

noun:

• one-armed shoulder throw (judo or sumo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term

noun:

• (approx.) 2 o'clock (am or pm) - archaism

~の noun / noun:

• authorized (by imperial or royal order); authorised; appointed; enacted; established

noun:

• main text (as opposed to any included commentary or annotations)
• authentic text (e.g. of a treaty, as opposed to any translation not specified as authentic) - Law term
• Chinese classical literature

noun:

• tiqin (2 or 4-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
• violin ➜ バイオリン

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• attributive form (of a Japanese verb or adjective)) - Linguistics term

noun / ~の noun:

• (animal or plant) scale

noun:

• audio book (book read onto CD or tape)

noun:

• person who brags about (or prides themselves on) their fishing skill

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to read through (difficult passage or particularly long book)

noun:

• tentaculate (a tube worm, moss animal or lampshell) ➜ 触手冠動物

noun:

• last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th) - Buddhism term ➜ 三十三回忌

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• fluttering (esp. of thick or heavy material) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• piece of dangling cloth, paper, metal, etc. - onomatopoeia