noun:

• peak of a financial bubble (esp. in Japan around 1990)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to hold on to something (secret, lead in a race, etc.)

noun:

• drying a futon (by hanging it outside in the sun)

noun:

• even game (esp. in go)

noun:

• aiming for a lucky break (e.g. in horse racing, betting on an unlikely horse)

noun:

• Nandikesvara (Ganesh in the Buddhist pantheon) - Buddhism term ➜ 歓喜天

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to be reflected (in); to be mirrored (in) ➜ 映じる
• to impress (a person) ➜ 映じる

noun:

• court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 五舎

noun:

• the eight precepts (in addition to the five precepts, prohibitions against: lying in a luxurious bed; self-decoration, song & dance; and eating after noon) - Buddhism term ➜ 五戒

noun:

• going downstream (in a boat)

noun:

• pool (in river)

noun:

• harassment (in the workplace) from a position of power; power harassment - abbreviation ➜ パワーハラスメント

noun:

• poisonous algae bloom (often green in color) (colour)

noun:

• performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) ➜ 浄瑠璃

noun:

• Inshu dialect (spoken in eastern Tottori)

~と adverb / adverb:

• banging around (e.g. in a fight) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Griffiths' pygmy-goby (Trimma griffithsi, found in the Indo-West Pacific); princess pygmy goby (Trimma marinae, found in Japan, New Guinea and Palau)

noun:

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

noun:

• spot-tail shark (Carcharhinus sorrah, species of requiem shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to share a cup of sake (in commemoration of something)

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor ➜ サルバトールモニター

noun:

• (Japanese) Privy Council (abolished in 1947)

noun:

• (in China) 12th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C sharp) ➜ 十二律・上無
• tenth month of the lunar calendar

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

noun:

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