noun:

• soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl

noun:

• Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun:

• Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) - colloquialism ➜ 穂咲の総藻
• aquatic plants such as hornwort that are commonly used in goldfish tanks, etc.

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions ➜ カメコ

noun:

• eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Asomi, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi) - archaism - obscure term ➜ 八色の姓

expression:

• whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events

noun:

• traditional work song of Hokkaido herring fishery workers, performed by school students in modern choreographed interpretations

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• Randall's pygmy goby (Trimma randalli, species in Palau and the Philippines)

noun:

• spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei, a shortnose chimaera found in the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• 1927 Theses; Comintern policy documents regarding capitalism, imperialism, and a possible revolution in Japan

noun:

• Scatophagidae; family containing four species in two genera of small Indo-Pacific fish commonly called scats

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物

noun:

• mooncake; disc-shaped confection of wheat-flour dough filled with bean paste, usu. eaten during Autumn in China

noun:

• word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...") - e.g. 申し訳ありませんが、あいにく ➜ クッションワード

noun:

• Dutch disease; decline in a country's manufacturing sector owing to increased exploitation of natural resources - Business term

noun:

• Far East Command; FEC; United States military headquarters in the western Pacific after World War II

noun / ~する noun:

• agitating other players in a multiplayer or online game by rapidly moving one's avatar left and right - abbr. of シャア専用ゲルググのダンス - slang

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】

noun:

• eggs; egg; spawn; roe ［卵］
• hen egg
• (an expert) in the making ［卵］
• beginning; origin; infancy ［卵］

noun:

• bread; pastries (e.g. croissants); pastry-based products - originally written 麺麭 or 麪包 - From Portuguese "pão"
• pan; frying pan - From English "pan" ➜ フライパン

noun / ~する noun:

• panning (in a film)

adverbial noun / conjunction:

• etc.; otherwise; besides; in addition; the rest; the others; and so forth - そのた is the more common reading when written

noun:

• beach; seashore
• captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 揚げ浜
• Yokohama - abbreviation ➜ 横浜
• riverbank; riverside - archaism - Ōsaka dialect

noun:

• particle; postpositional word in Japanese grammar that functions as an auxiliary to a main word - Linguistics term