noun:

• most experienced chanko cook in the sumo stable - Sumo term

noun:

• hand touching the ground resulting in direct loss - Sumo term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• the people being panic-stricken (in alarm) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• (noise, smell, air, water) pollution in the neighborhood - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• the whole house (assembly, audience) being in uproar - four character idiom

noun:

• traditional textile of the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa

expression:

• in fooling the enemy first deceive your allies - proverb

noun:

• var. of puppet popular in the Edo period

noun:

• bacteremia; bacteraemia (presence of bacteria in the blood)

noun:

• in-house faction (political groups within the Diet)

temporal noun:

• first thing in the morning - colloquialism

expression:

• feeling sad or downhearted; down in the dumps - idiom

noun:

• spiracle (respiratory pores in the body of insects)

noun:

• Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae - Astronomy term

noun:

• Aldebaran (star in the constellation Taurus); Alpha Tauri - Astronomy term

noun:

• forbearance (in the face of difficulty, persecution, etc.) - Buddhism term

noun:

• sunbird (any bird in the family Nectariniidae)

noun / ~の noun:

• erythroblastosis (abnormal presence of erythroblasts in the blood) ➜ 赤芽球

noun:

• sphere of fixed stars (in the Ptolemaic system)

noun:

• first year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō) ➜ 甲子・三革

noun:

• fifth year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō) ➜ 三革・戊辰

noun:

• bonang (small gongs used in the Javanese gamelan) - From Indonesian ➜ ガムラン

noun / ~の noun:

• left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); the following

~の noun:

• gentlemanly; gentlemanlike; in the manner of a gentleman

expression / noun:

• Tensei Jingo; daily column in the Asahi Shimbun - translation of "vox populi, vox Dei" (the people's voice is the voice of God)