noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

noun:

• expectation that something took place, will take place or was in some state; it should be so; bound to be; expected to be; must be
• nock (of a bow)
• nock (of an arrow)
• nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger) - Sumo term ➜ はず押し【はずおし】
• wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to look at; to gaze at; to watch; to stare at
• to look out over; to get a view of; to admire (e.g. the scenery)
• to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch; to observe

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods ); medieval times; mediaeval times

adverb / ~する noun:

• going on and on (about inconsequential things); talking nonsense - onomatopoeia
• idling away the time; dawdling - onomatopoeia

noun:

• glasnost; Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues in the 1980s - From Russian "glasnost'"

noun:

• fight to the finish; desperate struggle; life-and-death struggle - From English "death match"

noun:

• the five festivals (Jan 7th, March 3rd, May 5th, July 7th and Sep 9th)

noun:

• the five festivals (Jan 7th, March 3rd, May 5th, July 7th and Sep 9th)

noun:

• ninjutsu (fighting art of the ninja); ninja skills in secrecy, stealth and combat techniques - Martial Arts term

noun:

• Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matters

noun:

• endless cycle of rebirth through the three worlds of past, present, and future existences - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• in calligraphy, the four important tools of brush, ink stone, ink stick, and paper - four character idiom

noun:

• ancient Shinto (as practiced prior to the Introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism to Japan)

noun:

• Wallace's line (hypothetical line separating the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions)

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

expression:

• with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; with the force of surging waves [literal]

noun:

• torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

noun:

• shiku-kaisei city planning; city renewal that occurred in the Taisho and Meiji eras

noun:

• Delhi Dynasties; the Mamluk, Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyid, and Lodi dynasties of India ➜ デリースルタン朝

noun:

• redbelly tilapia (Tilapia zillii, fish of the family Cichlidae found in Africa and Eurasia)

noun:

• survivability; military term for the ability to withstand an attack and continue to function

expression / adverb:

• at the very beginning; first of all; before anything else; first and foremost

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

noun / ~する noun:

• going through thick and thin to attain one's objective; enduring unspeakable hardships for the sake of vengeance - four character idiom