noun:

• Ministry of Central Affairs (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• lyric sheet; card with the lyrics to a song

noun:

• Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)

noun:

• imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox ➜ 春分の日

noun:

• imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox ➜ 秋分の日

noun / ~する noun:

• opening to the public (e.g. garden, etc.)

noun:

• read permission: anybody - IT term

expression:

• poor speakers make long speeches; brevity is the soul of wit - proverb

expression:

• the wrongdoer never lacks a pretext; even thieves have their reasons - proverb

noun:

• Fuji School (archaic name for the Nichiren Shoshu branch of Buddhism) - archaism ➜ 日蓮正宗

noun:

• flying far; blasting (e.g. into the sky); powerful jump; leap ➜ ぶっ飛ぶ

noun:

• Dodompa (a rumba-like Japanese musical genre popular in the 1960s)

noun:

• person who sees someone else off (e.g. at the airport) ➜ 迎え人

noun:

• person who goes to greet someone (e.g. at the airport) ➜ 送り人【おくりびと】

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony) ➜ 後の炭

noun:

• Semang people (Negrito ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula)

noun:

• coarse broken tea leaves and buds generated during the sifting process

noun:

• Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

noun:

• Brassicaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the mustards

noun:

• democide; the murder of any person or people by a government

noun:

• ecdysozoan (any animal of the superphylum Ecdysozoa, incl. arthropods, nematodes, etc.)

noun:

• rale; rales; crackles; abnormal rattling sound in the lungs - From German "Rasselgeräusch"

noun:

• summer retreat where monks stay in the same place to study - Buddhism term

noun:

• pineapple bun (Chinese sweet pastry similar to the Japanese melonpan) ➜ メロンパン

noun:

• monks who practise austerity to the point of death and mummification

noun:

• Transportation Corps (Service branch of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force) ➜ 輜重兵