noun:

• Kusshi (lake monster said to be living in Hokkaido's Lake Kussharo)

noun:

• foreign religion (from Japan's perspective, esp. Christianity) ［がいきょう］
• religion other than Buddhism - esp. げきょう - Buddhism term Antonym: 内教

noun:

• dharmakaya (dharma body, Buddhism's highest form of existence) - Buddhism term ➜ 三身

noun:

• (one's) late father

noun:

• Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003) ➜ 有志連合

noun:

• close confinement (in one's barracks)

noun:

• (flower's) pollen tube

noun:

• droit de suite (artist's right to receive a royalty on resale)

noun:

• formative experience (from one's youth)

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

noun:

• using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) ➜ 万葉仮名

expression / noun:

• palm (of one's hand) ➜ 掌【てのひら】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take (another's guilt) on oneself; to be accused of

noun:

• fame (for one's bravery); great renown

expression / adjective:

• old-fashioned (in one's way of thinking)

noun:

• (manufacturer's) serial number

expression:

• with (someone's) help

noun:

• soft, downy hair (i.e. such as on one's cheek); peach fuzz; fluff; pappus
• lanugo

~の noun:

• lanuginous; pappose; pappous

noun:

• (one's) military service record

noun:

• calluses (on one's ankles, insteps, etc.) caused by sitting seiza ➜ 正座【せいざ】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to crush (with one's hands)
• to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration); to pigeonhole; to smother

noun:

• (soldier's) cooking utensils; mess kit
• outdoor (camping) cooking utensils

noun:

• correct style in a haiku (like Basho's)

noun:

• spurt of blood (from one's victim)

expression:

• most thrilling relationships for a man (another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife)