noun:

• work hakama that are loose at the top and tight at the bottom - obscure term ➜ 猿袴

noun:

• assembly at the end of the day (at a company or school, etc.) ➜ 朝礼【ちょうれい】

noun:

• Lemuriformes; infraorder containing the lemurs (and sometimes the lorises and galagos)

noun:

• divine grace; divine protection; boon from the gods (or the emperor, etc.) - archaism - honorific language

adjective:

• having the smell of having been dried in the sun
• provincial; rural; unrefined

noun:

• Mariana Trench (deepest part of the ocean, near the Mariana Islands)

noun:

• reflation; stimulating the economy by increasing the money supply or by reducing taxes ➜ リフレーション

noun:

• abacus; flat slab forming the top part of the capital of a column - Architecture term - From Greek

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

noun:

• speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date

noun:

• well curb consisting of wooden beams crossed at the ends
• pattern resembling the symbol #; parallel crosses
• number sign; hash ➜ 番号記号

noun:

• the five virtues
• tripod; three or four-legged kettle stand
• family crest in the shape of such an object

noun:

• wealthy women who strive to follow the fashions exactly and be seen in all the right place

noun:

• pornographic pose (spreading one's legs open wide with knees bent, creating the shape of the letter 'M')

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi - obscure term ➜ 忘れ緒

expression:

• the last drop makes the cup run over; too much of a good thing; less is more - proverb

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• southeasterly wind blowing around the fifth month of the lunisolar calendar (when marine fishes allegedly turn into tree sparrows)

noun:

• Tilapia (large genus of cichlid fish in the Cichlidae family endemic to Africa and the Middle East)

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ 御触書

noun / ~する noun:

• graduation; completion (e.g. of a course)
• outgrowing something; moving on (from)

noun / ~する noun:

• setting sail; putting out to sea
• starting anew; embarking on something new - idiom

noun:

• shadow or cloud (e.g. on someone's happiness); shade; gloom

noun / ~する noun:

• devoting oneself to; concentrating on; commitment; admiration; adoration
• tipping over and collapsing - orig. meaning - archaism