noun:

• back of the house

expression:

• first verse of a nursery rhyme sung by children on cold days (similar to "It's Raining, It's Pouring")

noun:

• thick growth of bamboo

expression / noun:

• woman of around thirty - From English "around thirty"

noun:

• the flavor of Zen; the flavour of Zen; air or style of disinterestedness

noun:

• collection of letters; collected letters

noun:

• the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• name of a note in a movable do solfège system - Music term

noun:

• height of a mirror stand

noun:

• a series of arson cases

noun:

• lady of the house

noun:

• return of government (to Kyoto); making former capital (esp. Kyoto) the capital again

expression / noun:

• shape of the "dai" kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled

noun / ~する noun:

• summoning of a sworn witness (court, Diet); subpoena

noun:

• Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

noun:

• instruments of torture - archaism

noun:

• var. of red dragonfly (Sympetrum frequens)

noun:

• type of Japanese calligraphy paper

~の noun:

• of military bearing

expression:

• in sign of; in proof of

adjective:

• smell(ing) of sweat

noun:

• court of arbitration

noun:

• god of flowers; flower spirit

noun:

• barrel of a gun

noun:

• twenty-first day of the month
• twenty-one days