noun:

• Kansai region (south-western half of Japan, including Osaka)

noun:

• smallfin catshark (Apristurus parvipinnis, species of the western Atlantic)

noun:

• elongate unicornfish (Naso lopezi, species of western Pacific tang)

noun:

• sixplate sawtail (Prionurus microlepidotus, species of western Pacific tang)

noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

noun:

• the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells - four character idiom

noun / expression:

• iroha order; traditional ordering of Japanese syllabaries (based on a Buddhist poem) ➜ 五十音順

noun:

• traditional Japanese fire extinguisher (bamboo pole with a clump of rope attached at the end)

noun:

• Japanese and Koreans

noun:

• robe with a round collar, stitched sides and a ran, worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials ➜ 襴

numeric:

• 108; one hundred and eight

noun:

• the number of kleshas, worldly thoughts and passions - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩
• the sum of 12 months, 24 seasons of the solar year, and 72 'climates' of one year ➜ 七十二候・節気

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to do reverence (e.g. before a statue of the Buddha); to pay one's respects
• to beg; to make a supplication
• to see (something or someone of high status) - sometimes used sarcastically in modern Japanese - humble language

noun:

• nai stem (of a Japanese verb or adjective); irrealis form; imperfective form - Linguistics term

noun:

• ichimatsu doll; traditional Japanese doll with a torso made of hardened sawdust

noun:

• Tsushima marten (Martes melampus tsuensis, a subspecies of the Japanese marten) ➜ 貂

noun:

• personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character - four character idiom

expression:

• mixture of wheat and chaff; mixture of the good and bad; jumble of wheat and tares - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• ideal
• ideal in a ring (i.e. subset of a ring closed under addition and multiplication by elements of the ambient ring) - Mathematics term

noun:

• grounds of a Shinto shrine
• enchanted land; abode of immortals and gods

noun:

• normal style of writing; modern Japanese text
• text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)

noun:

• front and rear; front and back; before and behind; back and forth
• before and after

suffix noun:

• around; about; approximately

noun:

• order; context
• consequences
• just when; around the time of

noun / ~する noun:

• inversion; reversion; getting out of order
• co-occurring

adjective:

• Western; European; exotic; outlandish; alien; smelling of butter [literal]

noun:

• blotched foxface (Siganus unimaculatus, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish) ➜ ブロッチドフォックスフェイス