adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• on the brink of
• morning and evening; day and night

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sweetly smiling; like the smiling of a beauty; gracious

adverb:

• in the twinkling of an eye; in a flash

noun:

• pea crab (any crab of the family Pinnotheridae)

noun:

• four divine beasts; guardian deities of the four cardinal points

noun:

• type of commission system in the book industry in Japan

noun:

• being on the verge of starvation; being about to starve - four character idiom

noun:

• the practice of assigning one era name to one emperor - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• the Amazon river
• Amazon (woman of Greek mythology)

adjectival noun:

• ugly and creepy (combination of the words busaiku and kimoi) - slang ➜ キモい

noun:

• follicular phase; proliferative phase (of the estrous or menstrual cycle)

noun:

• Higashiyama period (cultural and artistic period of the mid-Muromachi) ➜ 室町時代

noun:

• Frankfurt School (school of philosophy in the 1920s)

suffix noun / ~の noun:

• stopped in the midst of; half- (i.e. half-read) - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• well curb - obscure term ➜ 井桁
• Chinese "Well" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

noun:

• six ministers (of the six Zhou-dynasty Chinese ministries) ➜ 六官

noun:

• flow line; streamline; lines representing the flow of a fluid

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the form (of); to assume a shape

noun:

• Nishida's philosophy (foundation for the Kyoto school of philosophy)

noun:

• book of hours (devotional book popular in the Middle Ages)

noun:

• lingering cold (even after the beginning of spring); lingering winter

noun / adjectival noun:

• calmness; stillness; tranquility

noun:

• calmness of the heart; enlightenment ［じゃくじょう］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• var. of Japanese paper made from the Oriental paper bush

noun:

• deepest part; deepest portion; depths (of the ocean etc.); innermost

noun:

• half-crying; being on the verge of crying