noun:

• Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

noun:

• summer retreat where monks stay in the same place to study - Buddhism term

noun:

• pineapple bun (Chinese sweet pastry similar to the Japanese melonpan) ➜ メロンパン

noun:

• falling to the ground like a Buddha statue being thrown down

noun:

• business-stimulating measures; economic stimulation program; measure to stimulate the economy

noun:

• hostess bar where patrons are allowed to touch the hostesses' breasts - slang - vulgar

noun:

• Edo-period Shinto sect dedicated to the worship of Mt. Fuji

noun:

• flute used to lure green pheasants (imitates the pheasant's song) - obscure term

noun:

• outer edge of the foot (from little toe to heel) (karate) - Martial Arts term

~と adverb / adverb:

• puffing (e.g. cigarette smoke) - onomatopoeia
• bobbing (to the surface); floating lightly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• festival celebrating the return of a shintai to its main shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun:

• first maple leaves to turn red in the season

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bask in the sun lying flat on one's belly ➜ 甲羅干し

noun:

• government official next in rank to the sakan (ritsuryo system) ➜ 主典

noun:

• railway carriage with the air conditioning set to a higher temperature

noun:

• railway carriage with the air conditioning set to a higher temperature ➜ 弱冷房車【じゃくれいぼうしゃ】

noun:

• treating somebody to one delicious meal after the other

expression:

• preaching to the deaf; wind (blowing) into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 馬の耳に念仏

noun:

• wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist); pants worn in such a manner - abbreviation - slang

noun:

• shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; shelf (i.e. "on the shelf") ➜ 蔵【くら】
• rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate

noun:

• soryo system; organization of regional landholding families based on divided inheritance under the leadership of a main heir, usu. the eldest son (Kamakura period)

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

noun:

• year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th & 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter) ➜ 式年祭

noun:

• time - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "samaya"
• meeting; coming together - Buddhism term
• equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月