noun:

• the five commissioners (administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi) ➜ 五大老

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

noun:

• Treaty of San Stefano (ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1878) ➜ 露土戦争

noun:

• official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)

noun:

• mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e. sore, soko, sochira) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

noun:

• Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・房【ぼう】
• satellite ［添い星・添星］ - Astronomy term ➜ 衛星

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - Kansai dialect ➜ ない

interjection:

• humph; hmph

noun:

• Qing-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 19th century) ➜ 清【しん】

noun:

• Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century) ➜ 明【みん】

noun:

• statutory rape; sexual activity with a minor under the age of consent - Law term

noun:

• houses of the Diet being controlled by different parties; twisted parliament [literal]

expression:

• having the luck to escape trouble (your behaviour has landed you in)

noun:

• manas (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self) - Buddhism term ➜ 末那識

noun:

• (in Japan) 12th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C sharp) ➜ 応鐘・十二律

noun:

• (in Japan) 5th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F sharp) ➜ 姑洗・十二律

noun:

• Ama no Nuhoko; the heavenly jeweled spear used by Izanagi and Izanami - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Wang Yangming and his followers) ➜ 朱子学

noun:

• Song-period neo-Confucianism (based esp. on the teachings of Zhu Xi) ➜ 朱子学

noun:

• heavenly king - Buddhism term
• Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva) ➜ 牛頭天王

noun:

• Chinese "Three Stars" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - obscure term ➜ 参【しん】

noun:

• Chinese "Hairy Head" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Pleiades; Seven Sisters ➜ 昴

noun:

• Nihon Montoku Tenno Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 文徳実録・六国史

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• mountain language (euphemisms used by hunters, etc. when in the wild) ➜ 忌み詞