expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

noun:

• Dictyoptera (order of insects comprising the cockroaches and the mantids)

noun:

• ukyounodaibu (title under the ritsuryo system at the imperial court) - archaism ➜ 律令

noun:

• traveling inspectors sent by the Shogun in the Edo period

noun:

• tempura soba without the noodles

expression:

• missing the vital element

noun:

• mochi offered when drawing the first water of the year ➜ 若水

noun:

• prostitute of the second rank (below the taiyu) (Edo period) ➜ 太夫

noun:

• provincial governor (from the middle of the Heian period)

noun:

• martial art based on the use of the iron fan ➜ 鉄扇

noun:

• washing clothes at night (during the height of the summer)

noun:

• Geisteswissenschaften (i.e. the humanities, excluding the arts); mental science

noun:

• schooner style ship built at the end of the Shogunate

noun:

• Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

noun:

• westerly wind blowing around the time of the spring equinox

noun:

• southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season

noun:

• cut of meat comprising the plate and the flank

noun:

• Merostomata (group comprising the sea scorpions and the horseshoe crabs)

noun:

• Erinaceomorpha; order comprising the hedgehogs and the moonrats

noun:

• Giraffidae; family containing the giraffe and the okapi

noun:

• public official stationed outside the capital (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 内官

noun:

• football (soccer) - humorous term - slang
• kick to the groin; kneeing in the testicles - vulgar - slang

expression:

• at the last moment; this late in the game ➜ この期【このご】

noun:

• Ryukyuan mission to Edo upon the change of the shogun ➜ 謝恩使

noun / ~する noun:

• lighting a sacred flame by the light of the Sun