noun:

• center of a noh stage

noun / ~の noun:

• Shōchū era (1324.12.9-1326.4.26) ［しょうちゅう］

noun:

• money needed to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage ➜ 身請け

noun:

• Cain complex (jealousy of a sibling, ultimately leading to hatred)

noun:

• plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution

noun:

• invitation letter (e.g. document in support of a visa to enter Japan)

noun:

• bumpy texture of a material (esp. woven fabric) ➜ 烏帽子
• creases in an eboshi hat

noun:

• crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (e.g. insurrection)

noun:

• Little's disease (i.e. spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy)

noun:

• war started or ended with the push of a single 'launch' button - obscure term - From English "button war"

noun:

• loss of a match that is 'called' part way into the game

noun:

• (in China) 8th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A) ➜ 黄鐘【おうしき】・十二律
• sixth lunar month

noun / ~する noun:

• buying a large amount (esp. of collectible items aimed at kids, such as manga) - colloquialism

noun:

• buddha-body within a practitioner (esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• altruistic manifested form of Mahavairocana (New Shingon) ➜ 本地身

noun:

• style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period (often with a military theme)

noun:

• joining both chopsticks together and using them as a spoon (breach of chopstick etiquette)

~と adverb:

• with a snap; (break) cleanly - onomatopoeia ➜ びしっと
• (reject) sternly; flatly
• smartly (e.g. of dressing up well).

noun:

• erection of a pillar by sinking it directly into the ground

noun:

• empathetically putting oneself in the place of a handicapped person - From English "cap handy"

expression:

• the poetic feeling of a late spring scene (with flowers scattering and birds chirping) - obscure term - four character idiom

noun:

• long segment of a noh play forming its musical highlight

prefix noun:

• wrong; improper; indecent ➜ 曲者

expression / adjectival noun:

• clear-cut and straightforward - idiom
• (of a person) forward-thinking; honest; upright; frank - idiom

noun:

• Out-of-Africa theory (positing a recent African origin for modern humans)

noun / ~する noun:

• tiger's howling
• "being out and active in the world (of a hero, etc.)" [figurative]

noun:

• pair (as part of a winning hand, together with four melds); eyes - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 対子

noun:

• blessing of man; winning with a discard in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese