noun:

• the Imperial Household expenses

expression:

• the word of a wise man is worth the words of one thousand fools; one thousand chirps of sparrows, one cry of a crane [literal] - proverb

noun:

• festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress

noun:

• grasping the trend; firmly understanding how the situation is developing; getting a good sense of how things are changing - four character idiom

noun:

• burning at the stake; burning to death

expression / adjective:

• not in the least

temporal noun:

• the sixth hour of the morning

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop in the middle of a sentence

noun:

• making a living in the red-light district - four character idiom

noun:

• poke in the forehead

expression / godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to hang on the wall

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to enter the government service

noun:

• the dead of night; praying all night in a shrine or temple

expression:

• the world is at peace; bows in bags and swords in sheaths [literal] - proverb

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• essentially the same with only minor differences - four character idiom

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

noun:

• Number of the Beast (i.e. 666)

noun:

• anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era - four character idiom

noun:

• Epistle to the Philippians (book of the Bible)

noun / ~する noun:

• change over the years; aging; ageing; secular change

noun / ~の noun:

• vegetarian cuisine originally derived from the dietary restrictions of Buddhist monks

noun:

• song in the style of the Heikyoku ➜ 平曲【へいきょく】

noun:

• twenty-fifth day of the month
• twenty-five days

noun / ~する noun:

• concurrently studying the teachings of two or more different schools or sects

noun:

• royalty seeking refuge outside the palace or capital during an emergency - archaism