noun:

• the whole country; the public; the world; the ruling power; having one's own way

noun:

• the Radio Law

noun:

• the whole world; south of the Big Dipper - archaism

noun:

• The Book of Documents; The Book of History; Shujing; Shu Ching ➜ 五経

noun / ~の noun:

• rounding of the lips; rounded (e.g. vowel) - Linguistics term

noun / ~の noun:

• (so marvelous or horrible that it may be) the first and probably the last - four character idiom

expression / temporal noun / adverbial noun:

• just the other day; quite recently

noun / ~する noun:

• the exact middle

noun:

• opening of the beachgoing season

noun:

• crawling on the ground; shuffling on one's knees
• cripple - sensitive

noun:

• captain of the guard

noun:

• integrated set of schools that offers education from one stage to the next without taking entrance exams en route

noun:

• Book of the Dead (ancient Egypt)

noun:

• poetry of the Tang period; Tang poetry

noun:

• 53rd of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun / adverbial noun / ~する noun:

• exerting oneself to the utmost, prepared to die if necessary - four character idiom

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• which can exist solely due to the presence of; whose existence is determined entirely by; which owes everything to - emphatic version of あっての ➜ あっての・こそ

adjectival noun / noun:

• the same; ditto

noun:

• revealing or demonstrating the truth - Buddhism term

noun:

• a matter for the police; with the police involved; a brush with the law - four character idiom

noun:

• kimono with design on the skirt

noun:

• the favor (favour) of one's master

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇鍋

noun:

• the Great Vowel Shift

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to look the other way; to hush up a problem - idiom