noun:

• Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant); IS; ISIL

~の noun:

• sultry; muggy; steamy; sticky; hot and humid ➜ むしあつい

noun:

• 6th month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• indigenous person; inhabitant of a country
• local; native ［くにびと］
• local lords and samurai
• daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period) ［くにうど・くにゅうど］ ➜ ざいこくしゅう

noun / ~する noun:

• arrival on location (esp. used in transport industries, police, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 現地到着

expression:

• one calamity followed close on the heels of another; out of the frying pan into the fire; tiger in front, wolf in the back [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• revised edition (of a book or manuscript); authoritative edition; standard edition; edition incorporating many changes and corrections
• final version of a book as edited by the author; revised edition of a book as edited by the author

noun / ~する noun:

• quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument

noun / ~する noun:

• hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest

noun:

• fight money; purse

noun:

• weapons; arms
• fighting with swords; sword fight

noun:

• money paid to settle a fight

~と adverb / adverb:

• banging around (e.g. in a fight) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the five Ws and one H (who, what, when, where, why and how)

noun:

• going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth - idiom
• itachigokko; Japanese children's game - original meaning

noun:

• Protectorate General; Han- and Tang-period Chinese office established to pacify and control peoples on the frontier (during the Tang period, six major Protectorate Generals were established) ➜ 都護・西域都護府・安東都護府・安南都護府・安西都護府・燕然都護府・単于都護府・北庭都護府

noun:

• central figure; pillar (e.g. of the nation); mainstay; chief support; leader
• chief; boss; leader; head
• master carpenter
• beams and ridge supports of a roof - orig. meaning

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to tuck one's tail between one's legs; to admit defeat; to turn tail (and run) - idiom

noun:

• two books on the art of war in ancient China; the secrets (essence) of the art of war; secrets of successful life; precepts for living - four character idiom

noun:

• number of people
• denominate number
• the number at the start of phrases referring to well known 'somethings', equiv. to 'seven' in "the seven wonders of the world" ➜ 三筆・四天王

noun:

• Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

noun / ~する noun:

• being liberated from earthly desires and the woes of man; (reaching) nirvana; moksha; mukti

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term ➜ 貴輪時代

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom