noun:

• sweetened rice-flour cakes for offering at the Dolls' Festival

noun:

• Crepidiastrum keiskeanum (species of plant in the daisy family)

expression:

• last snows; snow remaining after the anniversary of Buddha's death ➜ 涅槃会・涅槃雪【ねはんゆき】

noun:

• last snows; snow remaining after the anniversary of Buddha's death ➜ 雪の果て【ゆきのはて】

noun:

• business-stimulating measures; economic stimulation program; measure to stimulate the economy

noun:

• wataka (Ischikauia steenackeri) (freshwater fish of the carp family) - 黄鯝魚 is gikun

noun:

• rice field in the charge of a nominal holder (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 名主【みょうしゅ】

noun:

• power behind the throne; éminence grise; kingmaker; wire-puller; shadow shogun [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• simultaneous development; spreading at the same time (e.g. two phenomena)

noun:

• Yama (as protector deity of the south in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• splendid multistoried building ➜ 楼閣
• Ministry of Central Affairs (under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• adjusting the height of eyeglasses (e.g. using nose pads)

noun:

• round pillars each side of the wall behind a shumidan dais - Buddhism term ➜ 須弥壇

noun:

• the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩魔・陰魔・死魔・天魔

noun:

• Nimravidae; extinct family comprising the false saber-toothed cats

noun / suffix noun:

• superclass ［じょうこう］ - Biology term

noun:

• top-ranking priest in the Office of Monastic Affairs - archaism - Buddhism term ➜ 僧綱

noun:

• Glaucophyta; phylum comprising the glaucophytes (a group of freshwater microscopic algae)

noun:

• festival for requests and expressions of thanks to the gods (Okinawa)

expression:

• if the kids make a racket outside, there will be rain - traditional belief - proverb

noun:

• hostess bar where patrons are allowed to touch the hostesses' breasts - slang - vulgar

adjective:

• warm (esp. from the fever of a sick person); hot; stuffy

adjectival noun:

• popular (among the general public); populist; plebian; low-brow; widely liked

noun:

• the three Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic)

noun:

• buying a CD, book, etc. because of the cover

noun:

• buying a CD, book, etc. because of the cover - abbreviation ➜ ジャケット買い【ジャケットがい】