noun:

• Saikyo; one of the eight gods of the koyomi ➜ 八将神

noun:

• Daion; one of the eight gods of the koyomi ➜ 八将神

noun:

• Verse of the Shared Morality of the Seven Buddhas - Buddhism term

noun:

• base of the throat; bottom of the neck

noun:

• upper reaches (of a river); upper stream Antonym: 下【しも】
• top; upper part; upper half (of the body)
• long ago
• beginning; first
• person of high rank (e.g. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 御上
• government; imperial court
• imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto); capital region (i.e. Kansai); region (or direction of) the imperial palace ➜ 上方【かみがた】
• head (of a table)
• wife; mistress (of a restaurant) - honorific language

noun / ~する noun:

• seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be experienced in the ways of the world; to taste the bitter and the sweet

noun:

• various forms of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetry, sarugaku acrobatics performance) ➜ 猿楽【さるがく】
• miscellaneous songs popular from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period ➜ 歌謡

noun:

• study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation)
• English literature; British studies

adjectival noun:

• that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such

expression:

• judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of

noun:

• advocates of protection of the Constitution; supporter of the current Constitution

expression:

• judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of ➜ からすると

expression:

• judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of ➜ からすると

noun / ~の noun:

• outside world; physical world ➜ 内界

noun:

• outside sales; external sales

noun:

• the number of flat things
• win-loss difference which influences the ranking of wrestlers - Sumo term

expression / noun:

• above the clouds; heaven
• the Imperial Court
• something unreachable; place of out of reach

noun:

• food of the mountains (wild game, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, etc.); fruits of the land ➜ 海の幸

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• silent (esp. of the passing of the night)
• piercing (cold) ［しんしん］

noun:

• drumming at the end of the day of wrestling inviting spectators to return tomorrow - Sumo term

noun:

• separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period) - four character idiom ➜ 神仏習合

noun / ~の noun:

• director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo system); chief - archaism ➜ 四等官

noun:

• day of the ox in midsummer (during the hottest season); dog days of summer ➜ 丑の日

noun:

• Sincerely yours (with the nuance of "please excuse the brevity of this letter")