noun:

• scientific thought

noun:

• observation network

noun:

• official use; government business

noun:

• tile block print (newspaper in Tokugawa period)

noun:

• Kanji to English dictionary

noun:

• fire blight (tree disease, esp. apple, nashi, etc.); fireblight

noun / ~する noun:

• simplification

noun:

• leisure

noun:

• pleasant fellow

interjection:

• exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen)

noun:

• scolding or threatening with a shout

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to let down one's hair; to undo hair

noun:

• sickle cell anemia (anaemia); sickle cell disease

noun:

• ratio of wholesale price to retail price

noun:

• Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)

noun:

• sixth lunar month - obscure term ➜ 水無月

noun:

• telegony; influence of a previous sire on the offspring of a female with a later sire (discredited theory of heredity)

expression:

• to whom it may concern - not good Japanese, as it is 二重敬語

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to suspend between two points; to build (a bridge, etc.); to put up on something (e.g. legs up on table) - sometimes written 掛ける

noun:

• aim to make a prefecture a travel destination

noun:

• feeding an infant solely with breast milk (i.e. no formula)

expression / noun:

• family atmosphere

noun / adjectival noun:

• charm (e.g. of an innocent child); lovable nature

noun:

• sign; placard

noun:

• counting system; way (manner) of counting

noun:

• concealed nail