noun:

• chapel; place of worship (esp. Christian) ［れいはいどう］
• place of worship (esp. Buddhist and Shinto) ［らいはいどう］

noun:

• castle and moat; castle's moat - obscure term
• City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)

expression:

• man is not made of stone; man is made of flesh and blood - proverb

noun:

• Minister of State for Special Missions; Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy - abbreviation ➜ 内閣府特命担当大臣【ないかくふとくめいたんとうだいじん】

noun:

• Minister of State for Special Missions; Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy

noun:

• fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe) ➜ 本生り
• weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man; pallid man

noun:

• government-binding theory; government and binding theory - Linguistics term ➜ 統率束縛理論

noun:

• carpet; rug; matting; carpeting
• mat, mattress, quilt etc. spread out on the floor (or ground) and used to sit or sleep on
• spread; (cloth) cover; coaster

noun:

• method of learning through repetition conceived by Kageyama Hideo, which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers

noun:

• spotted surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus strigosus, species of bristletooth tang found in Hawaii, Johnston Island, and Australia); goldring surgeonfish; goldring bristletooth

expression / noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death ➜ 丑の刻参り

noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to rub in (e.g. cream into the skin)
• to grind and mix (e.g. pepper into miso)

noun / ~する noun:

• deep realization (realisation); profound realization
• one's faith being transmitted to a deity and one's wish then being granted
• unexpectedly obtaining something

noun:

• mask squeeze; unequal pressure between the mask air space and the vascular pressure within the blood vessels of the face

noun:

• tax-free small-sum savings system (often used by the elderly and the disabled); non-tax plan for small savings

expression / ichidan verb:

• to settle down; to get a steady job; to marry and raise a family
• to attire oneself; to outfit oneself

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to turn over (in one's sleep); to toss and turn (in bed)
• to change sides; to double-cross; to betray

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood

expression:

• don't lend money to a man who doesn't have an erection in the morning (because he's not healthy and might die before he can repay) - archaism - proverb

noun:

• Carcharodon (genus containing the extant great white shark and the extinct megalodon shark in the mackerel or white shark family Lamnidae)

prefix:

• anti-

noun:

• antithesis ➜ 反定立
• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone - abbreviation ➜ 反切

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; for the most important parts to be done; the nose and eyes are in place [literal] - idiom

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun / expression:

• visual novel; sound novel; interactive game resembling a mixed-media novel and featuring mostly static graphics