noun:

• fashionable hairstyle, particularly to attract members of the opposite sex

adverb / ~する noun:

• shrill whistling sound - onomatopoeia
• reddening or brightening slightly
• rush of blood to the head

noun:

• sending food to someone's house on the night of a wake

noun:

• wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)

noun:

• woman who is obsessed with the education of her children

noun:

• rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)

prefix:

• indicates the target of an activity; -ee (e.g. employee, examinee, trustee)

noun:

• Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust) ➜ 精霊飛蝗

noun:

• larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish) - sometimes read ごんどうくじら - obscure term ➜ 巨頭鯨

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• towering; lofty - archaism
• standing out without the influence of others; in splendid isolation

noun:

• dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term

noun:

• degenerative eye disorder caused by cloudiness in front of the pupil - obscure term ➜ 底翳

noun:

• any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits) - obscure term ➜ 鶺鴒
• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) ➜ 時鳥

noun:

• 33 temples in the Kinki area containing a statue of Avalokitesvara

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of speech (with sentences ending in "da") ➜ である体

noun:

• treehopper (any insect of family Membracidae, esp. the species Orthobelus flavipes)

noun:

• comb jellies (jellyfish-like animals of the phylum Ctenophora) ➜ 有櫛動物

noun:

• the five commissioners (administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi) ➜ 五大老

noun:

• Treaty of San Stefano (ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1878) ➜ 露土戦争

noun:

• Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・房【ぼう】
• satellite ［添い星・添星］ - Astronomy term ➜ 衛星

noun:

• statutory rape; sexual activity with a minor under the age of consent - Law term

noun:

• houses of the Diet being controlled by different parties; twisted parliament [literal]

noun:

• manas (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self) - Buddhism term ➜ 末那識

noun:

• (in Japan) 12th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C sharp) ➜ 応鐘・十二律

noun:

• (in Japan) 5th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F sharp) ➜ 姑洗・十二律