noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• tourist bus with high seating for better sight-seeing - From English "high decker, high-deck car" ➜ 観光バス

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to exit - slang ➜ 入り待ち

noun:

• celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)

noun:

• red and black lacquered sake cask with horn-like handles, used for ceremonies ➜ 酒樽

noun:

• stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• public storehouse used to store grain or valuables collected for taxation (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• Chinese name for a high government office (ritsuryo period)
• alias; pseudonym ［からな］ - archaism

noun:

• downloadable content (e.g. for a video game); DLC - From English "download contents"

noun:

• drink box; carton (milk, juice, etc.); paper bag (for vacuum cleaners)

noun:

• oldest architectural style for Shinto shrines (e.g. used at Izumo shrine)

noun:

• fashion style for young women invoking a soft, forest-like feeling

noun:

• hostess club; bar with female companions for male customers - From English "cabaret club" ➜ キャバクラ

noun:

• quota for recommendations (e.g. student admissions, new team members, etc.); recommendation limit

noun / ~の noun:

• a woman's natural inclination to care for others; big-sisterly disposition

noun:

• solitary confinement in a dark cell without bedding (for up to one week)

noun:

• entry (esp. to vehicles); entrance
• equipage for restraining and mounting horses ［のりくち］ - archaism

noun:

• middle-aged woman who looks very young for her age (as through "magic") ➜ 魔女

expression / noun:

• the last remaining piece (which people are reluctant to take for themselves) - Ōsaka dialect

noun:

• barracks; cantonment
• temporary lodging with roof but no walls (esp. for military exercises) - orig. meaning

suffix noun:

• from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); in the field of; being of the type of
• aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; on; above

noun:

• first volume (e.g. book) ➜ 下【げ】・上巻

noun / prefix:

• superior quality; best; top; high class
• going up
• governmental; imperial
• presenting; showing

prefix:

• ana- (medical, biol.)

noun:

• seam of joined boards
• cross grain (of wood)
• thick card made from several sheets of washi paper - abbreviation ➜ 板目紙

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.
• literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning
• face (of a printing type)

noun / ~する noun:

• declaration of intent; declaration of intention; expression of one's intention; manifestation of intention