noun:

• chapter one; first chapter

noun:

• Tartary (various tribes that historically inhabited the area north of China)

noun:

• living in a housing complex

noun:

• local fire brigade (Edo period); provincial fire brigade - archaism

noun:

• horned dung beetle (Copris ochus)

noun:

• spotted nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) - obscure term ➜ 星烏

expression:

• to whomever; to anybody at all

noun:

• plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes

noun / ~する noun:

• royal treatment; entertain someone extravagantly - four character idiom

noun:

• grounds (of tea and coffee)

noun:

• (French) Second Empire

noun:

• substitute article

noun:

• very fast train; bullet train

noun:

• arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.
• otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish) - orig. meaning

noun:

• atrocity; outrage; heinousness

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to continue one's studies up to university; to go to university ➜ 進学

noun:

• Daiji era (1126.1.22-1131.1.29)

expression / noun:

• public transport disruption ➜ ダイヤ

noun:

• barge; lighter

noun:

• Umbonium giganteum (species of sea snail)

noun:

• ostrich (Struthio camelus)

noun:

• Yamantaka Vidya-raja; conqueror of Death - Buddhism term

noun:

• hail of bullets

noun:

• fault basin

expression:

• it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was)