noun:

• even pitch; accentless pitch; Japanese pitch accent pattern with no drop from high to low pitch

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• happy trail (line of hair from the navel to the genitals); pubic hair

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a good eye (from having seen fine art, etc.); to be a connoisseur ➜ 肥える

noun:

• Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant)
• paper made from the fibre of this plant - abbreviation ➜ 雁皮紙

noun:

• Indian Ocean mimic surgeonfish (Acanthurus tristis, species of tang from the Indian Ocean)

noun:

• type of fast military boat used from the Warring states period until the Edo period - archaism

noun:

• semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths

noun:

• retired husband syndrome; stress syndrome resulting from one's husband being at home

noun:

• horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows

noun:

• great longitudinal fissure; longitudinal cerebral fissure; longitudinal fissure; interhemispheric fissure; fissura longitudinalis cerebri; groove that separates the two hemispheres of the brain

noun:

• being able to hear something (clearly); clearness of a sound; reception (e.g. of a radio station)
• reputation; renown; fame; hearsay
• impression (that something gives off); respectability
• sonority - Linguistics term

noun:

• Suica (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train pass in the greater Tokyo, Osaka and Sendai regions and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ パスモ

noun / ~する noun:

• generation-to-generation instruction from master to disciple - four character idiom

noun:

• taxi equipped with a meter (from "meter taxi") - obscure term

expression:

• the greatest hate proceeds from the greatest love - proverb

noun:

• wisdom obtained from meditation - Buddhism term
• wisdom and meditation - Buddhism term

noun:

• door frame; window frame; frame sections of the door or window that provide most of its structural integrity

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this month; before the month is out; in the course of this month

noun:

• oni; ogre; demon
• spirit of a deceased person ➜ 亡魂
• ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.) ［おに］
• it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.) ［おに］ ➜ 鬼ごっこ【おにごっこ】
• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ［き］ - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

prefix:

• very; extremely; super- ［おに］ - slang ➜ 超

noun:

• rising intonation; upward inflection
• rising (sales, tendency, etc.); getting better; improvement
• feet-first somersault hanging from the horizontal bar ➜ 逆上がり

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• slender unicorn (Naso minor, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from Mozambique to the Philippines); blackspine unicornfish; little unicorn

noun:

• person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans