noun:

• shape of the lingering snow on a mountainside ➜ 雪占

noun:

• low geta (once used when cleaning the garden) ➜ 駒下駄【こまげた】

noun:

• civic activity; activities initiated by the citizens themselves

noun:

• juvenile delinquents roaming about the city in groups - From English "teamer"

noun:

• defenestration (throwing something or somebody out the window) ➜ 窓外放出

noun:

• the Big Dipper seen on a winter night ➜ 北斗

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be the mother of someone's child

noun:

• star in the sky on a spring night

noun:

• empty rice field (between the harvest and spring)

noun:

• Balitoridae; family comprising the river loaches

noun:

• clothes worn by the nobility when attending Court

noun:

• contemplation (on Amida Buddha, the Pure Land, etc.) - Buddhism term ➜ 口称念仏

noun:

• inside the back cover (book); rear end-paper ➜ 見返し【みかえし】

adverbial noun:

• in the future; from now on; henceforth; hereafter - archaism

noun:

• work experience; practical study in the real world

expression:

• salutation at the end of a formal letter - archaism

noun:

• loss-making business; company operating in the red

noun / ~の noun:

• security-related; from the stand-point of safety

noun:

• kabuki in the style of Kyoto or Osaka ➜ 江戸狂言

noun:

• kabuki in the style of Kyoto or Osaka ➜ 上方狂言

noun:

• Battle of the Bulge (1944-1945)

noun:

• Scaphopoda (class of molluscs comprising the tooth shells)

noun:

• wind coming from the top of a mountain ➜ 山颪【やまおろし】

noun:

• occlusion in the circle of Willis ➜ もやもや病

noun:

• abnormal cerebrovascular network in the cerebral basal region ➜ ウィリス動脈輪閉塞症