noun:

• biting midge (any insect of family Ceratopogonidae); no-see-um - obscure term ➜ 糠蚊
• plant hopper (any insect of family Delphacidae) ➜ 浮塵子

noun:

• using the Japanese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)

noun:

• eastern Japan; Japan east of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line, i.e. east of the Chūbu region ➜ 糸魚川静岡構造線・西日本

noun:

• club of rabble-rousing reckless-driving delinquents; biker gang; group of hot rodders; biker gang member; hot rodder - colloquialism ➜ 暴走族【ぼうそうぞく】

noun:

• advocacy of consumer rights (product safety, accurate labelling, etc.); consumer activism; consumer advocacy ➜ コンシューマリズム
• consumer spending; high levels of consumption ➜ コンシューマリズム

noun:

• colour of water (esp. in rivers, lakes, sea)
• scenery of rivers, lakes, etc.
• light blue; pale blue; aqua ➜ 水色【みずいろ】

noun:

• first day of the month - usu. 一日 or １日
• first ten days of the lunar month ［ついたち］ - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on

noun:

• collapsing in the middle of a bout - Sumo term
• breaking down (while in the middle of something); faltering halfway

noun:

• foot of a mountain; plain at the foot of a mountain
• range; spread; extent; encompassing circle

noun:

• index fossil (fossil which suggests a date of the formation of a rock stratum); key fossil; leading fossil

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year) ➜ どんど

noun:

• Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

noun:

• forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain - archaism

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year) ➜ どんど

adverb / ~と adverb:

• by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• tears or flower petals falling quietly - onomatopoeia ➜ はらはら・ぼろぼろ
• gurgling bird sound - onomatopoeia
• falling apart; crumbling; melting (in one's mouth) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc. - Food term

noun:

• horn; antler
• antenna; feeler; tentacle (e.g. of a snail)
• horn-like projection (e.g. peaks of whipped cream)

noun:

• deep pool; deep water; abyss ➜ 瀬
• depths (e.g. of despair, etc.); grip (e.g. of death)

noun:

• double slap in the face (second slap administered by the return motion of the back of the hand)

noun:

• forming a four-of-a-kind by adding a self-drawn tile to an open three-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 加槓・槓

noun:

• water offered to God; water drunk before an altar to symbolize the making of a vow
• miracle-working water
• water which gathers in the nodes of bamboo after falling as rain at noon on the 5th day of the 5th month (lunar calendar), thought to be effective when used in medicines

expression:

• If you dislike someone, you will end up hating everything he stands for; hate a priest, and you will hate his very vestments [literal] - proverb

expression:

• you can't always get what you want; man plans and God laughs; things don't always turn out the way you hope - proverb

noun:

• 15th day of the 8th lunar month - usu. 中秋
• eighth month of the lunar calendar ［なかあき］ - obsolete term ➜ 葉月

noun / ~する noun:

• scraping together (a sum of money); raising (a sum of money) by straining one's credit - four character idiom