noun:

• white sandbar; white sandbank
• area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles
• gravel separating a Noh stage from the audience
• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism ➜ お白州

noun:

• criminal, administrative and civil codes (forming the basis of ancient East Asian law; orig. Chinese); legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models ➜ 律・令【りょう】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be out of focus ➜ ずれる
• to be off the point (e.g. of a plan); to have not got the point

noun:

• taiko; title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son - esp. refers to Toyotomi Hideyoshi - honorific language ➜ 関白【かんぱく】

noun / adjectival noun:

• the point of an argument being unclear; the tenor of an argument being poorly reasoned - four character idiom

noun:

• skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom
• child kabuki actor - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• head; chief; leader; elder
• the greatest of all; the most excellent

adverb:

• at once; right away; promptly; on the spur of the moment

noun / ~する noun:

• moon viewing (esp. during the eight month of the lunar calendar) ➜ 月見

noun / ~する noun:

• Buddhist memorial service; prayers for the repose of the soul

noun:

• open to all; taking part on the spur of the moment

noun:

• province of the lowest rank (ritsuryo system)

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving for the provinces - archaism

noun:

• prostitution of learning; twisting the truth and truckling to the times - four character idiom

noun:

• (late Edo-period) idea of uniting the court and the shogunate

adjectival noun / noun:

• being older or a senior; the first half of the year

noun:

• stage made of Japanese cypress
• the limelight; the big time

noun / ~する noun:

• alliance (esp. originally of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty) ➜ 秦・連衡・六国

noun:

• something worshiped as a symbol for the spirit of the dead

noun:

• covering for the back of the hand and wrist

noun:

• Filipino (standardized Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines)

noun:

• 4 bales on the edge of the ring set slightly back - Sumo term

noun:

• 4 corner bales on the outer rim of the sumo ring - Sumo term

noun:

• wrestling performed in the presence of the empress or crown prince - Sumo term

noun:

• ceremony to purify the ring before the start of a tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells) - Buddhism term