noun:

• binding particle (i.e. specifying an expression later in the sentence); linking particle; connecting particle - Linguistics term

noun:

• Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures (all administrative divisions of Japan except Tokyo-to)

noun:

• kitchen (in a restaurant)
• cook; chef - Kansai dialect ➜ 板前

noun:

• emergence (in evolutionary theory, systems theory, etc.)

noun:

• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun / ~する noun:

• bowing many times (in apology)

noun:

• Paragaleus (genus in the weasel shark family Hemigaleidae)

noun:

• stereotype (in printing)

noun:

• baby colic (in infants around 3 months old)

noun:

• nasal sound change (generation of geminate consonant, primarily a geminate 't' from vowel stems ending in 'i') - Linguistics term ➜ 撥音便

noun / ~する noun:

• slipping (in boxing); down caused by a boxer slipping - Sports term - From English "slip down"

noun:

• stepper (device used in the manufacture of integrated circuits)

noun:

• mochi received from one's parents after giving birth (trad. eaten in miso soup to improve lactation)

noun:

• (accomplished in) both the literary and military arts - four character idiom

noun:

• Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)

noun:

• necromancer (esp. a blind female in northeastern Honshu); medium; shaman ➜ 巫子【いちこ】・口寄せ

noun:

• Lakshmi (consort of Vishnu in Hinduism) ➜ 吉祥天

noun:

• Volkerwanderung (great migration in Europe during the Migration Age)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl

noun:

• repetition of position (in chess, shogi, etc.); repetition draw

noun:

• events of May 1968 (strikes, protests and riots in France)

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)

noun:

• serving tea (esp. in tea ceremony) - polite language

noun:

• negative reaction (in patient)

noun:

• giant pygmy goby (Trimma gigantum, fish found in Palau)