noun:

• common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

adverb:

• burning with desire

adverb:

• in all ages; over the ages; forever and ever ➜ いつの時代も

noun:

• white powder for use on the neck (e.g. by geisha)

noun:

• the ten good acts - Buddhism term ➜ 十悪
• the emperor ➜ 十善の君

noun:

• the monotremes

noun:

• BRIC, BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), referring especially to the fast-growing economies of these countries

noun:

• indulging in every possible luxury - four character idiom

particle:

• particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information

expression / godan ~る verb:

• depending on the ...; to depend on the ... ➜ 如何【いかん】

noun:

• drain with an oblong cross-section

noun:

• hemorrage in the fundus of the eye

noun:

• common man

noun:

• the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period ➜ 南都六宗

noun:

• the right to submit a bill (draft law) to parliament

noun:

• domination of the world; world hegemony; world domination ➜ 世界征服

noun:

• offerings of rope, paper, etc. hung on trees in Shinto shrines

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "nu"; "na" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• the five skandhas (the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

noun:

• in-car announcement (on a train); PA system on a train

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

adjective:

• black with hints of blue (as in a bruise); bluish black

noun / ~する noun:

• attacking the shogunate