expression / adverb:

• just before one's eyes; in one's presence; personally

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to understand each other well; to call forth a response in another's heart; to relate to

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go up in smoke; to burn down; to be cremated; to vanish into thin air

noun:

• very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill

noun:

• gentle on the outside but tough on the inside; an iron hand in a velvet glove - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• change again and again; seesaw back and forth; being in a state of flux; backtracking repeatedly - four character idiom

noun:

• stone-roasted bibimbap; Korean style rice (bibimbap) heated in a stone pot

noun:

• caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods

noun:

• body slam (e.g. in wrestling)

noun:

• flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image - Buddhism term

noun:

• art project which is done in place of a graduation thesis at a college of arts ➜ 卒制

noun:

• Hydrolagus barbouri (species of cartilaginous fish found in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea)

noun:

• Rhincodon (genus of one species of whale shark, Rhincodon typus, in the family Rhincodontidae)

noun:

• Cetorhinus (sole genus of the only species of basking shark in the family Cetorhinidae)

expression:

• mountain in springtime when all of the tree buds open at the same time; laughing mountain [literal] - poetical term

noun:

• precepts given to an adherent prior to being consecrated as an Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 伝法灌頂・阿闍梨

noun:

• tachibana tree west of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace) ➜ 紫宸殿・左近の桜

noun:

• cherry tree east of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace) ➜ 右近の橘・紫宸殿

noun:

• Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November) - archaism ➜ 酉の市

noun:

• standard printed form (of kanji); any of 1,022 non-joyo kanji commonly used in print ➜ 常用漢字

noun:

• punch-style can opener (punches a round or V-shaped hole in a can of liquid)

noun:

• maid cafe; cafe with waitresses dressed in cute maid costumes

noun:

• idol (esp. in the philosophy of Francis Bacon: idols of the tribe, cave, market, and theater) - From Latin "idola"

noun:

• starburst galaxy; galaxy in the process of an exceptionally high rate of star formation - Astronomy term ➜ スターバースト銀河【スターバーストぎんが】