to polish / to cultivate one's skill / to select

ethnology

Kyūjitai form of 民族学: ethnology

folkloristics

a treadmill (piece of indoor sporting equipment)

swift

(Buddhism) Everything prosperous will eventually decline.

(phonetics) monotone type: the most common pitch accent pattern in “standard” Japanese or 標(ひょう)準(じゅん)語(ご) (hyōjungo), as used in the mass media, where no syllable is accented: the first syllable has a low pitch and all subsequent syllables have a higher, gradually lowering pitch

a pitch accent pattern in Japanese where the first mora is low pitch, then the pitch is high until the accented mora, followed by an immediate downstep with the remaining syllables having low pitch

a pitch accent pattern in Japanese where the first mora is low pitch, then the pitch is high until the final and accented mora, followed by an immediate downstep with any following particle or other unaccented word having low pitch