noun:

• first sale of the year; first trade of the year ➜ 初売り

noun:

• system of one-party rule; system of single-party rule

noun:

• confirmation of someone's safety; ascertainment of someone's safety

noun:

• check of someone's ability; test of someone's ability

noun:

• head of the student council; president of the student council

noun:

• blizzard of falling cherry blossoms; flurry of falling cherry blossoms

noun:

• proportion of forested land; proportion of land which is forested

noun:

• simultaneous recruiting of new graduates; periodic recruiting of new graduates

noun:

• being under the rule of; being under the government of

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

noun:

• constellation - Astronomy term
• mansion (any of the Chinese constellations used to divide the ecliptic into 28 positions) - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿
• Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 星【せい】

noun:

• Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass) ➜ 雌刈萱
• Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass) ➜ 雄刈萱
• thatching grass; thatching sedge

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hear; to catch (the sound of something)
• to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to learn of (something)
• to get used to hearing

noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom

noun:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom ➜ 不立文字

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

noun:

• flower chafer (any flower beetle of tribe Cetoniini)
• Eucetonia pilifera (flower chafer species of tribe Cetoniini)

noun:

• statue of the birth of Buddha (right hand pointing at the heavens, left hand pointing at the earth) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• request; commission; entrusting (with a matter)
• dependence; reliance

adverbial noun / noun:

• just a minute; small quantity

noun / ~する noun:

• visit (to a shrine, grave, etc.); worship

interjection:

• have a good day; take care; see you - often in response to いってきます

noun:

• crater; caldera
• burner (e.g. on a furnace)

noun / ~する noun:

• intention; aim; preference (for); orientation (towards a goal) ➜ 指向

noun / ~する noun:

• mention (in a document); record; entry; statement; listing