noun:

• Rashidun period (the period of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, 632-661 CE)

noun:

• any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

noun / ~の noun:

• director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo system); chief - archaism ➜ 四等官

expression:

• the heat is off; things calm down; the excitement dies down - idiom

noun:

• day of the ox in midsummer (during the hottest season); dog days of summer ➜ 丑の日

noun:

• Sincerely yours (with the nuance of "please excuse the brevity of this letter")

noun:

• the path that one should follow as a human being; the path of benevolence

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東

noun:

• Law Concerning the Promotion of Specific Non-Profit Organization Activities (1998); the NPO Law ➜ ＮＰＯ法

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of the fireplace in a Zen temple (first day of the 2nd month) ➜ 開炉

noun:

• small statue of Shoki the Plague-Queller (placed on the overhang of traditional houses) ➜ 鍾馗

noun:

• memorial services for the founder of the sect (esp. for Shinran in Shin Buddhism) - Buddhism term

noun:

• food of the mountains (wild game, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, etc.); fruits of the land ➜ 海幸

noun:

• marriage in which the bride is taken into the groom's family; virilocal marriage

noun:

• the "wa" column of the Japanese syllabary table (wa, wi, we, wo)

noun:

• paying for the purchase (expense) out of one's own pocket; being responsible for the payment of one's share of the purchase price, expense, etc. - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cause a stir; to create a stir; to make a stir; to cause repercussions

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

noun:

• carved seal; engraved stamp

~する noun:

• to engrave (a seal); to carve
• to make an impression (with a seal)

expression / adverb:

• in every nook and corner; from A to Z; from head to toe; from cover to cover

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take someone's place; to step into someone's shoes; to succeed someone in his post ➜ 後釜

godan ~る verb:

• to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way

noun:

• talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; chat
• talk show - abbreviation ➜ トークショー
• toque

noun:

• black-spot surgeonfish (Acanthurus bariene, species of tang found from Mozambique and Maldives to the western Pacific); roundspot surgeonfish; bariene surgeonfish; eye-spot surgeon