noun:

• mistake; error; blunder ➜ ミス
• accident; mishap; trouble
• improper conduct (e.g. between man and woman); indiscretion

noun:

• decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year ➜ 注連縄

noun:

• mouth with a protruding lower lip and jaw
• socket; receiving window; slot ［うけぐち］

expression:

• one who experiences a chronic ailment takes better care of his health and lives longer - four character idiom

noun:

• white sand and green pines; beautiful stretch of sandy beach dotted with pine trees - four character idiom

noun:

• mistake; error; blunder ➜ ミス
• accident; mishap; trouble
• improper conduct (e.g. between man and woman); indiscretion

noun:

• ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• Clusiaceae; Guttiferae; family of plants including St. John's worts and mangosteens

noun:

• sommelier (sommeliere); waiter or waitress who manages and is an expert on wine - From French

noun:

• seasoning of grated daikon with soy and vinegar, usually for fish or vegetables - Food term

noun:

• Golden Triangle (area near the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos)

noun / ~する noun:

• beginning one's studies with something familiar and gradually increasing the depth of learning - four character idiom

noun:

• public awareness (e.g. publicity and education campaigns aimed at improving the health, environment, etc.)

noun:

• euphonic change wherein some mora ('ki', 'gi', 'shi' and 'ri') are pronounced 'i' - Linguistics term

noun:

• vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) - Buddhism term

noun:

• The Five (circle of Russian composers: Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin)

noun:

• Qing-dynasty system assigning equal numbers of Manchurians and Han Chinese to central government agencies

noun:

• framing (e.g. a picture)
• flaming; hostile and insulting interaction between persons over the internet

noun:

• megapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, incl. brush turkeys and mallee fowl); mound builder

expression:

• he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day; fleeing is winning [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on post-Jin and Yuan teachings ➜ 古医方

noun:

• Pomacentridae; family containing about 360 species of primarily marine tropical damselfishes and clownfishes

noun:

• Panthera (genus of the cat family Felidae containing tigers, lions, jaguars, and leopards)

noun:

• female assistant who scrubbed customers at public baths and also offered sexual services (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 湯女

noun:

• maid at an inn who served clients and worked as a prostitute (Edo period) ➜ 飯盛り