noun:

• word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji" ➜ 女房詞

noun / ~の noun:

• China and North Korea; Chinese-North Korean

noun:

• imperial court
• Imperial Court (of Japan)
• middle ages

noun:

• Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)

noun:

• strong local wind blowing around the Hira mountains in Shiga prefecture (sinks boats on the lake and stops trains of the Kosei Line)

noun:

• political operations; (Heian Period) political operations and ceremonies of the Imperial Court; (Edo Period) civil suit

adverb / noun:

• (sound) of clashing swords; (arguing) as fiercely as clashing and blocking swords - four character idiom

~と adverb:

• (with a) slap; smack; whack; sound of a sharp blow with something flat - onomatopoeia
• wham; sound of striking with something solid - onomatopoeia
• zap; crack; sound of thunder - onomatopoeia

noun:

• bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae)
• middle (of a three-tier ranking system) ➜ 梅【うめ】・松【まつ】

noun:

• hem; (trouser) cuff; shirttail
• bottom edge
• foot (of a mountain)
• tips (of hair)
• downstream - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• shortness of breath; panting; puffing
• running out of steam (e.g. economy); losing momentum

noun:

• fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha)
• person of no worth; pisher; scrub - derogatory term

noun:

• mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae) ➜ 銭葵・冬葵
• Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger) ➜ 二葉葵
• hollyhock - hollyhocks (genus Alcea) are part of the mallow family ➜ 立葵

noun:

• source (e.g. of a river); headwaters
• origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)

expression / noun:

• thick fog (of suspicion); black veil of secrecy; covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• something (equipped) with legs
• sole of foot
• one's manner of walking

noun:

• Man'yōshū; 8th century anthology of Japanese poetry; Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves [literal]

noun:

• piece of wood at front edge of entranceway floor; agarikamachi

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• of great renown; highly illustrious; at the zenith of one's fame - four character idiom

noun:

• video containing a slideshow of still images (usually of women) - From English "image video"

noun / adjectival noun:

• love of cleanliness; liking to keep things clean; tidiness (of people); neatness

suffix:

• honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status - honorific language

noun:

• statue of a figure sitting contemplatively in the half lotus position (often of Maitreya) - Buddhism term ➜ 弥勒菩薩

noun:

• Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan) - archaism ➜ 篠竹【すずたけ】
• shoots of this plant

noun:

• small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (i.e. on Awaji Island) ➜ 四国八十八箇所