noun:

• Okinawan dish of pig ears

noun:

• line of spears held at the ready

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to the service of one's master

noun:

• Ministry of Central Affairs (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• buildings on the east and west side of the southern pond (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り

noun / ~の noun:

• bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals) - obscure term ➜ 中手骨

noun:

• theory of functions

noun:

• aggregate amount of indebtedness

noun:

• organization of shrine parishioners in a hamlet; parish guild

noun:

• Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1952-1972)

noun:

• school of one's (first, second) choice

noun:

• lettering on the spine of a book

noun:

• fear of heights; acrophobia

noun:

• expansion (in space) of a sales area; increase in the number of beds (in a hospital, etc.)

noun:

• way of escape

noun:

• assistant chief of staff, g2

expression:

• the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age

noun:

• Book of Exodus (Bible)

noun:

• state of isolation

noun:

• Republic of Greece; Hellenic Republic

noun:

• one of the leading private schools

noun:

• informal kasaya worn primarily by adherents of Pure Land Buddhism - obscure term ➜ 袈裟

noun:

• feeling of clothes

noun:

• three major sutras of Pure Land Buddhism ➜ 無量寿経・阿弥陀経・観無量寿経

noun:

• administrator of a manor