noun:

• ancestor's meritorious deeds; the evil effects of the lives of our predecessors

noun:

• unpadded kimono
• 1st day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar ［綿抜き］ - also written as 四月朔日 ➜ 綿抜の朔日

noun:

• large stone; boulder
• large group of stones (in the game of go)

noun:

• Battle of Dan-no-ura; final battle of the Genpei War (1185) ➜ 壇ノ浦の戦い【だんのうらのたたかい】

noun:

• any god of foodstuffs
• Uka-no-Mitama (god of rice) ➜ 稲魂

noun / ~する noun:

• admission by a defendant of the justice of a plaintiff's case; cognovit

noun:

• pit; hole - archaism
• kan (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: water, north)

noun:

• assistant director (second highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 四等官

noun:

• control of access by means of a password; being password-protected - IT term

expression:

• out of sight, out of mind; the dead are forgotten with time - proverb

expression / noun:

• motion of a baby gently hitting his own face with both of his hands

noun:

• consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 阿闍梨

noun:

• coarse silk from the outside of a cocoon (a type of waste thread)

noun:

• General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ

noun:

• work of art the creator has confidence in; work one is proud of

prefix noun:

• some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)

noun:

• sticking chopsticks upright into a bowl of rice (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 一本箸

noun:

• time of departure; (on the) point of departure; just as one is leaving

expression / adjective:

• unperceived; unnoticed; unnoted; out-of-the-way; out of sight; inconspicuous; private ➜ 人目につく【ひとめにつく】

noun:

• mislabelling of food (e.g. expiry date, country of origin, etc.); food fraud

noun:

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

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to place one's arms under those of the opponent and lift them up, in order to prevent an overhand grip on one's mawashi - Sumo term

noun:

• new moon - Astronomy term
• first day of the lunar month
• (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)

noun:

• battlecry; cheer; cry where one breathes in a large volume of air and then releases it suddenly in a loud cry ➜ 鬨の声

noun / ~する noun:

• rushing at the enemy ➜ 突貫

noun:

• consumption of goods and services by young working adults who live at home, with their basic living expenses covered by their parents; nest-dweller consumption [literal]