noun:

• same singular and plural form (of a noun) (e.g. sheep)

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

noun:

• the milk of human kindness of the people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods - four character idiom

noun:

• flat part of the top of the cranium
• plate-like depression on the head of kappa ➜ 河童

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

noun:

• heaven of the thirty-three; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 四天王・六欲天

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• climate of the third month of the lunar calendar in Okinawa (end of the dry season); early summer

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th) ➜ 七十二候

expression / adverb:

• in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs

noun:

• Budget Committee of the lower house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) - abbreviation ➜ 参院予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the lower house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) - abbreviation ➜ 衆院予算委員会

noun:

• ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples
• rice dance; rice festival
• tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso - abbreviation - Food term ➜ 田楽焼き
• turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides - abbreviation ➜ 田楽返し

noun:

• purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 小正月・元宵

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing (or dropping) off, then later picking up or going to meet (the same person)

noun:

• multiple people holding the same item with their chopsticks
• passing something from chopstick to chopstick

expression:

• capable or not, we are all in the same boat; bats are also birds [literal] - proverb

~の noun / noun:

• freemium; offering both free and premium content in the same product (esp. in online gaming)

noun:

• part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes

noun:

• note written on the reverse of the right side of an ancient document (memorandum or explanation of the contents) - archaism