noun:

• performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) ➜ 浄瑠璃

noun:

• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
• becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience

noun:

• strong local wind blowing around the Hira mountains in Shiga prefecture (sinks boats on the lake and stops trains of the Kosei Line)

noun / ~の noun:

• old person; elderly person; senior citizen

noun:

• trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay - Sumo term
• senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate)
• important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)

noun:

• in the face of the enemy; before the enemy

noun:

• the life of the people; the people's living

noun:

• the shogunate period; the days of the shogunate regime - four character idiom

~の noun / noun:

• along the road; at the side of the road

noun / ~する noun:

• circumvention of the law; evasion of the law (by using legal means to obtain a result normally only obtainable by illegal ones)

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

noun:

• room behind the curtain of a noh stage, where the actors prepare; greenroom (noh); mirror room [literal]
• hall of mirrors (at Versailles)

noun:

• the skin (of a human being)
• warmth of the skin; body warmth

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to hinder the growth of (e.g. plants, someone); to hamper the growth of

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to repeat the mistake of somebody; to make the same mistake as that of ... - idiom ➜ 轍を踏む

noun:

• night jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum); night jasmine; lady of the night; queen of the night

noun:

• just law
• proper method
• the true teachings of Buddha; Period of the True Law - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• relocation of the capital; transfer of the capital

noun:

• head of the family; head of the household

noun:

• honour of the family; honor of the family

noun / ~の noun:

• center of the earth; centre of the earth

noun / ~する noun:

• evasion of the law; circumvention of the law

adverb:

• under the guidance of; under the leadership of

expression / noun:

• sound of the wind; voice of the wind

noun:

• study of the calendar; way of the calendar - archaism ➜ 暦学

adjective:

• smelling of the sea; smelling of the seashore