expression / noun:

• prohibition on women entering (usu. for religious reasons); no female admission

noun:

• non-fruit-bearing flower
• something that is flashy with no content

expression / adjective:

• far beyond one's power; not at all equal; no match for ➜ 及びもつかぬ

interjection:

• no!; don't!; tsk!; used to scold small children and pets

noun:

• Ama no Nuhoko; the heavenly jeweled spear used by Izanagi and Izanami - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

noun:

• silvering; silvered item
• person who is all style and no substance; poser

noun:

• quiet PC; personal computer that makes little to no noise

noun:

• radical political activist belonging to no particular sect - From English "non-sect radical"

noun:

• window with a view of a Japanese mugwort thicket
• poor house; humble house; primitive house

noun / ~の noun:

• illegal residence (in a country); illegal stay; illegal overstaying (of a visa)

godan ~す verb:

• to persuade by tears; to use tears to get one's way

noun:

• nuclear power plant; nuclear power station

noun:

• nuclear crisis; nuclear power-plant crisis

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to deal with (a person); to treat; to handle; to take care of; to entertain
• to deal with (a problem); to handle; to manage
• to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to work
• to deal in; to sell
• to cover (a topic); to treat; to discuss; to take up
• to treat A as B - as ＡをＢとして扱う
• to mediate (an argument) - archaism
• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable - archaism
• to gossip - archaism

noun:

• dried lacquer
• dry lacquer (technique); kanshitsu; technique for making objects (vessels, sculptures, statues, etc.) from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to turn (something) over ➜ 裏返す
• to look at it from another perspective - usu. as 裏を返せば
• to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to attain
• to lead to (a place); to get to
• in the extreme case of - as ～に至っては
• to come; to arrive; to result in - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• Galapagosization; widespread design of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species

noun:

• president (of an organization); director general; governor (of a central bank); party leader (esp. LDP)

noun:

• Hayagriva (manifestation of Avalokitesvara with an ornament in the shape of a horse's head) - Buddhism term ➜ 観世音

noun:

• young master (respectful way of referring to the son of a high-ranking person) - honorific language

noun:

• one of the accent patterns of Japanese words, with a rising and then falling pitch

noun:

• Nebrius; genus of a single species of nurse shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae

noun:

• series of articulated plates attached to the back and sides of a Japanese helmet ➜ 兜

noun:

• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) - obscure term ➜ 寝殿造