noun:

• writer; author; literary person; one who lives from writing

noun:

• thick card made from several sheets of washi paper

noun:

• holy men who abstain from meat and cooked food

noun:

• mushroom cloud (from nuclear explosion, etc.)

noun:

• looking aside; (from the) eyes of an onlooker

expression / noun:

• one's memoirs
• keepsake (not from a dead person)

noun:

• fragments from the old literary work kept at Koyasan

noun:

• sprout of a plant shooting from under the soil

noun:

• mobile van where blood is collected from donors; bloodmobile

noun:

• warm air (e.g. from a heater)
• spring breeze - archaism

noun:

• policy-induced slump; stagnation resulting from poor economic policies - four character idiom

noun:

• charango; small lute-like stringed instrument, orig. from Bolivia - From Spanish

noun:

• hagfish (esp. the species Myxine garmani from Japan)

noun:

• thick wakame leaves, from near the stalk

noun:

• baijiu (distilled Chinese alcohol, made from fermented grains) - From Chinese

noun:

• paiban (clapper made from several flat pieces of wood)

noun:

• plasmon (quasiparticle resulting from the quantization of plasma oscillations)

noun:

• cold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains

noun:

• regional pickle of Kyoto made from turnip-like vegetable

noun:

• high-grade charcoal produced from ubame oak (Quercus phillyraeoides) - abbreviation ➜ 備長炭

noun:

• iron arrow-head (from the Yayoi and Kofun periods)

noun:

• parajika (rules entailing expulsion from the sangha for life) - Buddhism term

noun:

• circular stone or jasper ornament from the Kofun era

noun:

• aojiru; vegetable juice drink made from green leafy vegetables

expression:

• thank you (dialect from the Izumo region of Shimane Prefecture)