noun:

• decorative ridge-end tile (traditionally bearing the face of a demon and resembling a gargoyle)
• hideous face - obscure term

noun:

• putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism - four character idiom

expression:

• almost never; few and far between; little or nothing; hardly any; hardly anything at all; very little

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• glasses and plates being scattered about after a party or banquet; articles lying about in a jumble - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden dolls - abbreviation ➜ 木目込人形
• type of theatrical makeup
• type of artwork using paper, cloth and paste

noun:

• white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

noun:

• correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説

noun:

• break between the light meal and the actual serving of tea (during a formal tea ceremony)

expression / adjectival noun:

• to be as busy as a bee; like Christmas and a birthday feast rolled into one - idiom

noun:

• separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)

noun:

• university of applied science (e.g. the Dutch "Hogeschool" and the German "Fachhochschule" institutes of higher education)

noun:

• Gulf surgeonfish (Acanthurus randalli, species of tang found in Florida and northeastern Gulf of Mexico)

noun:

• lacquering technique that uses a coloured-lacquer undercoating and a transparent-lacquer topcoat

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• point where two ocean currents meet (e.g. a warm current and a cold current) ➜ 潮目
• attractive glance - archaism

noun:

• crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal

noun:

• making from scratch (esp. in model-making and information systems); full scratch building - From English "full scratch"

noun / suffix noun:

• fish, meat, vegetables, etc. pickled in kōji and salt; food pickled in malted rice ➜ 麹【こうじ】

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• vigorous for one's age; active despite one's years; hale and hearty; full of beans - onomatopoeia

noun:

• secretly slitting one's belly (and only eventually revealing one's mortal wound) (in kabuki, bunraku, etc.)

noun:

• tangible side of things (such as equipment and facilities; as opposed to the abstract side) ➜ ソフト面

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

noun:

• people who lived in Kyushu in ancient times, and who opposed the state of Yamato

noun:

• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - Buddhism term