noun:

• Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996) ➜ 社会民主党【しゃかいみんしゅとう】

noun:

• cold-suffering bird; kankucho; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes - Buddhism term
• (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori - idiom - derogatory term - Buddhism term

adverb / ~の noun / noun:

• from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season - four character idiom

noun:

• compared to previous period; quarter-to-quarter basis; from the previous quarter

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take care of; to bring up under one's personal care
• to kill with one's own hands
• to do personally; to handle (e.g. a job)
• to request that someone deal with (something)

noun:

• detective story (esp. one from the Edo period featuring thief-takers) ➜ 目明かし・岡っ引き
• detective's memoirs; thief taker's memoirs

adverb / ~する noun:

• cool sensation from passing air; cool and refreshing (aftertaste) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sound of air leaking; sound of a sleeper's breath

noun / ~の noun:

• old person; elderly person; senior citizen

noun:

• trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay - Sumo term
• senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate)
• important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)

noun:

• pitch (i.e. pace, speed, angle, space, field, sound, etc.)
• pitch (from distilling petroleum, tar, etc.)
• pitch (football, rugby); playing field
• PHS portable phone - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ ＰＨＳ

noun:

• last guest (tea ceremony); third guest of honour (honor); guest who sits in the seat furthest from the host and assists in various ways ➜ 詰め【つめ】・次客【じきゃく】・正客【しょうきゃく】

expression:

• now rejoicing, now worrying; swinging from joy to sorrow; glad and sad by turns; alternating hope and fear; unable to put one's mind at ease - four character idiom

expression:

• a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment; feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood - four character idiom

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil) ➜ カリビアンリーフシャーク

noun:

• whitefin hammerhead (Sphyrna couardi, species of hammerhead shark found in the West African tropics of the eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Congo)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to lose sight of (one's companions); to stray from

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to miss (one's chance to ...) - after the -masu stem of a verb, sometimes as っぱぐれる

expression / ichidan verb:

• to look at from a biased viewpoint; to look at with a prejudiced eye - idiom

noun:

• cold wind descending from the mountains
• cold Pacific wind (in the Tōhoku region in summer)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be noisy (e.g. from people talking) ➜ ざわざわ・騒めく【ざわめく】
• to be discomposed (e.g. feelings)

noun:

• blue green damselfish (Chromis viridis, a damselfish from the Indo-Pacific); blue-green chromis

noun:

• staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen buddhism); itinerant priest's lodging - Buddhism term
• providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time - Buddhism term

noun:

• place exposed to winds which blow up from below (usu. a beach); beach exposed to sea winds
• fountain

noun:

• ratio indicating the quantity of polished rice gained from a given quantity of brown rice (nowadays usually expressed as a percent)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to remove the astringent taste from persimmons
• to soak in water; to steep in water ［さわす］
• to matte (with black lacquer) ［さわす］

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan

ichidan verb:

• (for a fruit) to go bad and lose its shape from being overripe or damaged
• to feel listless; to be dull; to be lazy; to look bored