noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Postal Services Privatization

noun:

• any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

noun:

• change of course; route change; direction change

noun:

• flicker of light

expression / noun:

• waste of time

noun:

• customs tariff schedules of Japan

noun:

• 16th anniversary of one's death

noun:

• the seven districts of ancient Japan

expression:

• Out of sight, out of mind

noun:

• gathering of men and women who sang courtship songs to each other and danced; dancing and singing feast of young men and women in ancient Japan - archaism

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit) - abbreviation ➜ 身八つ口

noun / ~する noun:

• arrival of goods

noun:

• farmland given to nobles of the fifth rank or above (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• (in China) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C) ➜ 十二律
• ninth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• powers of observation

expression:

• At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius) - four character idiom

noun:

• terms of service; terms of use; terms and conditions

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to be of use (service)

noun:

• banks of the Sumida river

noun:

• division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine; spirit divided in such a manner

expression / noun:

• principle of least action - Physics term

expression / noun:

• humiliation of defeat in battle; past humiliation by others; shame of an unendurable disgrace - proverb ➜ 会稽の恥を雪ぐ【かいけいのはじをすすぐ】

noun:

• narrowing of visual field; narrow-mindedness; lack of vision - four character idiom

noun:

• severing of connections or relations

noun:

• angle of friction; frictional angle - Physics term