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移ろい うつろい (utsuroi)

change

Noun N2
客星 かくせい (kakusē)

celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)

Noun N2
お白州 おしらす (oshirasu)

court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand

Noun N2
スズメダイ科 スズメダイか (suzumedaika)

Pomacentridae (family containing primarily marine tropical damselfishes and clownfishes)

Noun N3
追いかけっこ おいかけっこ (oikakekko)

chasing one another

Noun N3
土取場 どとりば (dotoriba)

borrowing pit (in flood prevention)

Noun N3
アマシイラ科 アマシイラか (amashīraka)

Luvaridae (family containing one extant species of perciform fish similar to a surgeonfish)

Noun N3
土蔵造り どぞうづくり (dozōzukuri)

house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

Noun N2
市区改正 しくかいせい (shikukaisē)

shiku-kaisei city planning

Noun N2
造り花 つくりばな (tsukuribana)

artificial flower

Noun N2
ペン型 ペンがた (pengata)

pen-shaped

Noun N2
軟券 なんけん (nanken)

train ticket printed on soft paper, etc. (usu. dispensed from a vending machine as part of a roll)

Noun N2
地方名 ちほうめい (chihōmē)

geographical name

Noun N4
変わり得る かわりうる (kawariuru)

able to change

Expression N3
弟殺し おとうとごろし (otōtogoroshi)

killing a younger brother

Noun N3
日面経過 にちめんけいか (nichimenkēka)

transit (of a planet) over the Sun

Noun N3
少しも気にならない すこしもきにならない (sukoshimokininaranai)

not be concerned at all

Expression N3
底深い そこふかい (sokofukai)

very deep

Adjective N2
ラマン効果 ラマンこうか (ramankōka)

Raman effect (of inelastic photon scattering)

Noun N2
野となれ山となれ のとなれやまとなれ (notonareyamatonare)

I don't care what happens (after this)

Expression N4
宿曜道 すくようどう (sukuyōdō)

form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing (brought to Japan in the Heian period)

Noun N3
ところてん式に ところてんしきに (tokorotenshikini)

systematically

Adverb N3
困ずる こうずる (kōzuru)

to be troubled

Verb N3
ろくろっ首 ろくろっくび (rokurokkubi)

rokurokubi

Noun N3
他所 たしょ (tasho)

another place

Noun N3
何となれば なんとなれば (nantonareba)

the reason is that ...

Particle N3
上戸は毒を知らず下戸は薬を知らず じょうごはどくをしらずげこはくすりをしらず (jōgohadokuwoshirazugekohakusuriwoshirazu)

drinkers drink too much (and harm themselves in the process), nondrinkers drink too little (and miss out on the medicinal benefits of alcohol)

Expression N2
山菜採り さんさいとり (sansaitori)

gathering edible wild plants

Noun N2
火国 ひのくに (hinokuni)

Hi (former province located in present-day Nagasaki, Saga and Kumamoto prefectures; later split into Hizen and Higo provinces)

Noun N3
耳当 じとう (jitō)

earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Han dynasty China)

Noun N3