noun:

• defilement; impurity; affliction - Buddhism term
• object (perceived with the mind or the senses)

numeric:

• one billionth

noun:

• aureole (of a Buddhist statue; surrounding the body but not the head); aureola

noun:

• the three tones of Chinese that exclude the high-level, or first, tone

expression:

• one thing after another; out of the frying pan and into the fire - idiom

noun:

• woman bestowed with the title "in" (usu. the empress, imperial princesses, etc.) - honorific language ➜ 院

noun:

• incidentally; taking the opportunity; while (you) are at it; on the occasion ➜ 序でに

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings) - obscure term ➜ 上駒

noun:

• style of drawing the human face, popular in the Heian period

noun:

• cutting off the leg at the knee (form of punishment in ancient China) - archaism ➜ 五刑

noun:

• cutting off the leg at the knee (form of punishment in ancient China) - archaism - obscure term ➜ 剕

noun:

• water left in buckets on the roadside during the summer for travellers

noun:

• ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival) ➜ 霊祭【れいさい】・盂蘭盆

noun:

• juvenile delinquent under the age of fourteen; minor in trouble with the law

noun:

• eisa (Okinawan folk dance that marks the end of the Bon festival)

noun:

• Panthalassa; vast global ocean during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic periods

noun:

• street with tramline; railroad track
• railroading the opponent straight out of the ring - Sumo term ➜ 電車道相撲

noun:

• hairdresser's room in the residence of the shogun or a noble - archaism

noun:

• private constitutional drafts prepared before the adoption of the Meiji Constitution in 1889

noun:

• cutting off the head
• shaping the flowers and leaves of a plant

noun:

• two books on the art of war in ancient China; the secrets (essence) of the art of war; secrets of successful life; precepts for living - four character idiom

noun:

• northern ridge-tailed monitor (Varanus primordius, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to the Northern Territory of Australia); blunt-spined goanna

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to search (for something desired, needed); to look for - esp. 探す
• to search (for something lost); to seek (a suspect in a crime) - esp. 捜す

noun:

• new straw; straw from the current year
• rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

expression / ichidan verb:

• to speak unanimously; to speak in chorus; to speak in unison; to speak in one voice - usu. as 口をそろえて