expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to concur; to be the same (thought, opinion, etc.); to have the same way of doing

expression / noun:

• the crucial moment; the moment of truth; do-or-die situation; crucial juncture; crucial stage

noun:

• times and situations; the course of events of the times; a turn of Fortune's wheel - four character idiom

noun:

• Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) ➜ 文展【ぶんてん】

noun:

• little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept-secret place; hole-in-the-wall

noun:

• northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

noun:

• Di people; Zhou dynasty term used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the north - derogatory term ➜ 北狄

noun:

• six-year secondary school (type of school introduced in the 1998 revision of the Japanese School Education Law)

adjectival noun:

• proper

noun:

• propagandist; propaganda - abbreviation
• full time (staff); career (job title) (e.g. someone who has worked in the same area from the start)
• regular price; net price

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become used to the (ways of the) world; to become worldly or sophisticated

noun:

• Bunten exhibition; art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) - abbreviation ➜ 文部省美術展覧会【もんぶしょうびじゅつてんらんかい】

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• off-focus (photography); out of focus ➜ ピント
• off the mark; off the point; irrelevant ➜ ピント

noun:

• the rise of the curtain; opening (of play) ➜ 幕開き
• beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• physical labor; physical labour; physical work
• forced labor imposed by the government (e.g. under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 力役【りきやく】

noun:

• eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness) - Buddhism term

noun:

• moral culture; spiritual culture; culture born through the workings of the human mind (science, religion, philosophy, religion, art, etc.) ➜ 物質文化

expression / noun:

• why-why analysis; method of questioning that leads to the identification of the root cause(s) of a problem

noun:

• to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres
• square bearing block (at the top of a pillar) ➜ 枡形
• Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】

noun:

• riding; ride
• spread (of paints)

suffix noun:

• -seater (e.g. two-seater)

noun:

• (getting into the) mood; (entering into the) spirit; energy; enthusiasm; rhythm; feeling - esp. ノリ. possibly from 気乗り - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• night express with sleeper cars (from the original color of the trains) (colour)

noun:

• parhelion; sun dog; sundog (bright spot on either side of the sun caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻月

noun:

• paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻日

noun:

• Thompson's surgeonfish (Acanthurus thompsoni, species of Indo-Pacific tang whose Indian Ocean population lacks the white caudal fin of the Pacific variety)

noun:

• Azuma coat; type of coat worn over a kimono; popular in the middle of the Meiji era

noun:

• hole in the curtains to allow someone backstage to see the audience (in kabuki theatre) - obscure term
• public observation; feel of being watched; casual observers - obscure term ➜ 人目