noun / ~する noun:

• acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting ➜ 了承

expression:

• red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning - proverb

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)

noun:

• Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray

noun:

• white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

noun:

• pounding down earth around the roots of a tree
• adding short branches of flowers to the base of an arrangement in ikebana

noun:

• type of bronze Chinese coin first issued under Emperor Yuan of the Southern Liang dynasty worth the value of ten iron coins

expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971); Agreement between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands

noun:

• ability to take proper steps to meet the situation; ability to adapt oneself to (the requirement of) the moment - four character idiom

noun:

• problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times

noun:

• the Five Highways (radiating from Edo) ➜ 東海道【とうかいどう】・中山道【なかせんどう】

noun:

• the poor; the needy; the destitute

noun / ~の noun:

• the extraordinary; the unusual; the unexpected

adverbial noun / temporal noun / suffix:

• ago; before (some event); previously; (minutes) to (the hour) ➜ 前【ぜん】
• in front (of); before (e.g. the house)
• head (of a line); front (e.g. of a bus); fore part
• in the presence of
• helping; portion ➜ 人前【にんまえ】
• privates; private parts

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

noun:

• race to be the pitcher with the most wins in the season - Baseball term - From English "hurler derby"

noun:

• weather; look of the sky
• situation; turn of affairs; signs; way the wind is blowing

noun:

• Menshevik; member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party - From Russian "Men'sheviki" ➜ ボルシェビキ

noun:

• provincial governor (under the ritsuryo system, any of a group of officials, esp. the director) ➜ 守【かみ】

noun:

• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations, 1948)

noun:

• Lushan Conference (1959 meeting of the Communist Party of China to discuss the Great Leap Forward)

noun:

• Cetorhinus (sole genus of the only species of basking shark in the family Cetorhinidae)

noun:

• division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five periods (theory of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term ➜ 五時八教