月

Organization name

Black September (Palestinian extremist group responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics)

summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month)

habu jellyfish (Chironex yamaguchii); habu-kurage

a number of months

Red Crescent Society

the whole month; all the month

film shown over the New Year period

half a month

character sketch; comments on personalities

Word usually written using kana alone

upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea ornata); jellyfish of the genus Cassiopea

Colloquial; Dated term; Due to the resemblance between the hot spring symbol and an upside-down jellyfish

traditional love hotel; traditional Japanese inn specially for couples

Fertile Crescent

trying to reach above one's station and failing; trying to accomplish something beyond one's abilities and failing; monkey catching (a reflection of) the moon (in the water)

eighth lunar month

lunula (white crescent-shaped area at the base of a nail); nail moon

satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum)

lunar month

crescent

Medicine

hypermenorrhea; menorrhagia

name of a famous Buddhist nun

Sogetsu school of flower arrangement

the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt

feeling apprehensive; feeling (looking) lone and helpless; being down-and-out (ruined); helplessness of those in reduced circumstances

Proverb

time flies like an arrow

eleventh lunar month