noun / ~する noun:

• depalatalization (e.g.. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese); depalatalisation - e.g. conversion of きゃ to か - obscure term - Linguistics term ➜ 拗音【ようおん】

noun:

• countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city); yokel

noun:

• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)

noun:

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

noun:

• bad ending (in a film, novel, etc.); unhappy ending - From English "bad end"

noun:

• principal (e.g. in a loan)

noun:

• middle pine tree to a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

• rising no more (as in illness and death); returning no more; dying

noun:

• pavilion housing imperial treasures and historical artifacts (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

expression:

• pleasantly cool (as in the arrival of autumn) - archaism ➜ 秋涼【しゅうりょう】

noun:

• one-yen taxi (in the Taisho and Showa periods); taxi - abbr. of 一円タクシー

noun:

• crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in New Guinea); Salvadori's monitor; Papua monitor; artellia ➜ クロコダイルモニター

noun:

• five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism) ➜ 五辛

adjectival noun:

• neglectful (i.e. in the treatment of one's guests) - polite language

noun:

• posthumous name (based the deeds one has performed in their lifetime) ➜ 贈り名

noun:

• Kanda Festival (held at Kanda Myoujin Shrine in Tokyo on May 15)

noun / suffix noun:

• (in the) Kobe area

noun:

• place betting (in horse racing, etc.)

noun:

• purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline - Architecture term ➜ 母屋桁
• main building (of a manor) ➜ 母屋【おもや】
• central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

noun / ~の noun:

• being one or more laps behind (in a race)
• being behind the times

noun:

• cold noodles (in Korean style)
• chilled Chinese noodles - Kansai dialect ➜ 冷やし中華
• cold Chinese noodles accompanied by soup for dipping ➜ つけ麺

noun:

• Forcipiger (genus of tropical bannerfish in the family Chaetodontidae)

noun:

• Hydrolagus barbouri (species of cartilaginous fish found in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea)

noun:

• change of sides (e.g. in sport)

noun:

• away goals (rule in soccer)