noun:

• boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)

noun:

• interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace ➜ 寝殿造り

noun:

• aural highlight of a noh play in which the main actor remains seated ➜ 曲【くせ】・仕手

noun:

• swellshark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, species of catshark in the Eastern Pacific) ➜ アメリカナヌカザメ

expression:

• in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se

noun:

• convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness
• bug thought to cause children's diseases

noun:

• ceremony in which an abdicated emperor puts on informal court clothes (e.g. kariginu, eboshi) ➜ 狩衣・烏帽子

noun:

• single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts - e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

noun:

• Druze; Druse; Islamic sect primarily found in Syria and Lebanon

expression / noun:

• Rumble in the Jungle; Foreman vs. Ali boxing match, Oct. 30, 1974; Kinshasa Miracle [literal]

temporal noun:

• today; this day; used in theater (kyogen, noh song, kabuki) when emphasizing ➜ 今日
• these days; recently; nowadays ➜ 今日

noun:

• Long Term Evolution; LTE; standard for wireless communication of high-speed data in mobile telephony - IT term

noun:

• karuta game in which players race to grab cards associated with a given reading ➜ カルタ・読み札・取り札

suffix noun:

• superior to (e.g. professional, etc. in ability or achievement) ➜ 裸足【はだし】

noun:

• ignoring (one thing) for (another) ➜ 其方退け【そっちのけ】

noun:

• ABCD encirclement; embargoes against Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch starting in 1940

noun:

• coarse tea in which a pinch of salt is added (said to help dissipate alcoholic intoxication)

noun:

• manpower supplied by designated adult men to government officials, or tax in lieu (ritsuryo system)

expression / noun:

• fish in a pot about to be boiled; "person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger" [figurative]

noun:

• singularity (climate); day in the calendar when a particular weather phenomenon is statistically likely to occur

noun:

• magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)

noun:

• information; news; intelligence; advices
• information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.

noun:

• combination; assortment; set
• matching (in a contest); pairing
• combination - Mathematics term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stop by; to drop in for a short visit

noun:

• buzzer; personal alarm (loud buzzer to attract attention in case of attack)

noun:

• company employee
• member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)