noun:

• weather resistance (e.g. in building material)

noun:

• Pulitzer (as in Pulitzer Prize)

noun:

• class library (as in C++) - IT term

noun:

• distilled alcohol (sometimes added in the production of sake)

noun:

• generation comprising those who were children during WW2 (in Japan)

expression / noun:

• omniscient point of view (in narration)

noun:

• raised tatami-floored seating area (usu. in a Japanese restaurant); small separate dining room

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star - Astronomy term
• UGM-27 Polaris (nuclear submarine-launched ballistic missile) ➜ 潜水艦発射弾道ミサイル【せんすいかんはっしゃだんどうミサイル】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give a command (e.g. in a loud voice); to give an order

noun:

• secession (esp. in art, architecture, etc.)

noun:

• wad of cotton (esp. used in dentistry)

noun:

• Rigel (star in the constellation Orion); Beta Orionis - Astronomy term

noun:

• Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor) - abbreviation ➜ 紫微垣

noun:

• decoction (in Chinese medicine)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• tingling sensation (e.g. in a leg); feeling numb; painful tingle; throbbing - onomatopoeia
• noisily; ears ringing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Alcyone (star in the constellation Taurus, brightest of the Pleiades); Eta Tauri - Astronomy term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make oneself understood (in some language)
• to be able to relieve oneself ➜ 用を足す【ようをたす】

noun:

• wobbegong (eleven species of carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae)

noun:

• Parascyllium (genus of collared carpet sharks in the family Parascylliidae)

noun:

• Gollum (genus of one species, Gollum attenuatus, in the family Proscylliidae)

expression:

• (in the work) cited; aforementioned work; op. cit. (opere citato, opus citatum)

noun:

• normal hill (in ski jumping); NH - Sports term

noun:

• the three worms (in Taoism, worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings) ➜ 庚申待

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)