noun:

• manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) ➜ 漫画

noun:

• event where schoolchildren wash their inkstones, brushes and desks the night before Tanabata to pray for success in their studies - obscure term ➜ 七夕

noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept-secret place; hole-in-the-wall

noun:

• place that is cool in the summer; place one goes to escape the heat of summer; summer retreat ➜ 避暑

noun:

• oyakodon; chicken and egg on rice
• sexual relationship with both a mother and daughter - vulgar - slang

noun:

• Japanese-Spanish (gen. for translations and dictionaries); Japan-Spain (e.g. intercountry trade and relations)

noun:

• shop where one can buy and sell gift certificates, coupons, travel and concert tickets, etc. ➜ 金券ショップ【きんけんショップ】

noun:

• low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.)
• Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds) ➜ 山の手

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)
• staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become used to the (ways of the) world; to become worldly or sophisticated

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• off-focus (photography); out of focus ➜ ピント
• off the mark; off the point; irrelevant ➜ ピント

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to match (rhythm, speed, etc.)
• to join together; to unite; to combine; to add up
• to face; to be opposite (someone) ➜ 顔を合わせる
• to compare; to check with
• to cause to meet (e.g. an unpleasant fate) ➜ 遭う
• to place together; to connect; to overlap
• to mix; to combine
• to put blade to blade; to fight

noun:

• moral culture; spiritual culture; culture born through the workings of the human mind (science, religion, philosophy, religion, art, etc.) ➜ 物質文化

noun:

• snap (e.g. of the wrist in baseball)
• snapshot (esp. of people) - abbreviation ➜ スナップショット・スナップ写真
• snap fastener; press stud ➜ ホック

noun / ~する noun:

• ending the climbing season; closure of a mountain to climbers
• closing a mine; discontinuation of mining

noun:

• very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill

noun:

• scarab (Egyptian gemstone) - From French "scarabee"
• scarabeid (any of a group of beetles including the scarab beetle, Scarabeus sacer)

noun:

• deluded mind (a mind polluted with klesha, incapable of understanding the original essence of things) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

noun:

• Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi (heavenly gathering of clouds sword; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

noun:

• Grand Council of State (1868-1885 CE) ［だじょうかん・だいじょうかん］
• Department of State (under the ritsuryo system) - usu. だいじょうかん ➜ 律令制

noun:

• Rhincodon (genus of one species of whale shark, Rhincodon typus, in the family Rhincodontidae)

noun:

• draft of a magazine's content (usu. a table showing the allocation of each page)

noun:

• starburst galaxy; galaxy in the process of an exceptionally high rate of star formation - Astronomy term ➜ スターバースト銀河【スターバーストぎんが】

noun:

• starburst galaxy; galaxy in the process of an exceptionally high rate of star formation - Astronomy term