noun:

• rice field in the charge of a nominal holder (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 名主【みょうしゅ】

noun:

• government official next in rank to the sakan (ritsuryo system) ➜ 主典

noun:

• half-soled straw sandals; straw sandals which are designed only for the front half of the foot ➜ 草鞋

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let someone have the credit for (a success); to let someone else carry the flowers [literal]

godan ~る verb:

• to Google (i.e. to search for on the WWW using the Google search engine) - colloquialism

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪道

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪趣・三悪【さんあく】

noun:

• putting on the pressure; pushing forward
• being pressed; being under pressure

noun:

• mirror - archaism - obscure term
• Mafutsu no Kagami (alternate name for Yata no Kagami, the mirror of the Imperial regalia) ➜ 八咫鏡

noun:

• working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
• cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)

noun:

• taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things
• starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto)
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

noun:

• civil status; status (of a person) under the Civil Code

noun:

• Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki) ➜ 下関条約

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

noun:

• spring dust [literal]; frost and snow that's blown like dust in the air by the spring wind

noun:

• the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure and love, and hatred)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

expression:

• be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth - from Genesis 1:28 - proverb

expression:

• views in and around the city of Kyoto (paintings and drawings) ➜ 図・洛中洛外

noun:

• grounds south of a building; southern garden
• garden south of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in the Kyoto Imperial Palace) ➜ 紫宸殿

noun / ~する noun:

• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

noun:

• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

noun:

• standard measurement for the distance between pillars in the Kansai area (approx. 197 cm) ➜ 田舎間
• Kyoto-size tatami mat (approx. 190 cm by 95 cm) ➜ 田舎間

noun:

• temperature sensitivity; sensitivity of the demand for electricity to a change of the atmospheric temperature