Meanings

All Saints' Day

Lunar New Year

multiple joints

Japanese ginseng (Panax japonicus)

regulator gene

Japan-specific seasonal markers signaling changes in the season (e.g. the start of the rainy season, typhoon days, changing of the seasons) used in addition to the Chinese 24 solar terms

rheumatoid arthritis

seasonally adjusted

walking stick (any insect of order Phasmatodea)

Micadina phluctaenoides (species of stick insect)

miyako-bushi scale (characteristic Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, fa, la, ti, do)

seasonal migration (of fish, etc.)

internode

folk song sung to shamisen accompaniment

adverbial clause

space between two nodes (on bamboo, etc.)

closed syllable

Empress's Birthday (esp. as celebrated prior to WWII)

economical person

Emperor Meiji's birthday (November 3; national holiday held from 1927 to 1948)