noun:

• interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues - Sports term ➜ セ・パ

noun:

• absentee appointment to a distant administrative post (Nara and Heian periods) - archaism

noun / suffix noun:

• departure; departing (from ...); departing (at time ...) ➜ 着【ちゃく】
• sending; sent (by ...); sent (at ...)
• engine - abbreviation ➜ 発動機

counter:

• counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.; counter for bullets, bombs, etc.; counter for blows (punches) - also ぱつ

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to swerve from; to miss (e.g. a target)
• to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to to go astray; to wander

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

noun / ~する noun:

• trade; buying and selling; trafficking (e.g. of humans, arms, drugs); dealing

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• originally; primarily
• essentially; naturally; by nature; in (and of) itself
• proper; legal

noun:

• pension; guesthouse; bed and breakfast; private home providing lodging for travelers (travellers)

noun:

• system requirements (i.e. recommended hardware and software to run a package) - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• devoting oneself to; concentrating on; commitment; admiration; adoration
• tipping over and collapsing - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)

noun:

• student who performs housework in exchange for meals and-or lodging
• houseboy

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging - four character idiom

noun:

• civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation) - four character idiom

noun:

• okonomiyaki; savoury pancake containing meat or seafood and vegetables

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• stiff (atmosphere, manner, etc.); cold; unfriendly; unsociable; edgy - onomatopoeia
• thin and bony; scrawny - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Kodama; slowest Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (stopping at all stations) ➜ ひかり・のぞみ

noun:

• caliph; chief civil and religious Muslim ruler (prior to 1924)

noun:

• piroshki (Russian pierogi; meat and eggs, etc. baked in bread) - From Russian "pirozhki"

noun:

• Garuda or Garua (man-bird deity and 'vahana' of Hindu-Buddhist myth)

noun:

• licensed trade between Japan and Ming-dynasty China during the Muromachi period

expression:

• sweet words only please a fool; flattery works on puppets and fools - proverb

noun:

• life-and-death matter; an emergency or crisis where survival is threatened - four character idiom

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
• punctuation - abbreviation ➜ 句読点
• way of reading (esp. kanbun)