noun:

• Myoken (bodhisattva; deification of the North Star or the Big Dipper) - Buddhism term

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of tomorrow and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• ceremony to appease evil gods and the spirits of the dead

noun:

• return to the palace (usu. of the empress, crown prince, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• night before the full moon; 14th day of the lunar calendar ➜ 望月

noun:

• faint reflection of light upon the water in the dark

noun:

• sound when stopping the blade of a sword with the guard

noun:

• Okinawan festival held in the honour of the sea gods (honor)

noun:

• hotel in the center of the city - From English "city hotel"

noun:

• shrine listed in the Engi-Shiki as of the highest rank ➜ 延喜式【えんぎしき】

expression:

• on the least pretext; at the drop of a hat ➜ 何かと言うと

noun:

• predicting the weather from the wind direction, shape of clouds, etc.

noun:

• Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan) ➜ 二十四史

noun:

• seeds
• producer-driven solutions; ideas, products, services, etc. proposed by a company to consumers

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to get (much) colder; to deepen (cold)
• to feel cold (of the body); to be chilled to the bones
• to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.)

noun:

• day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

noun:

• hit
• success
• guess; prediction
• affability; friendliness
• sensation; touch
• bruise (on fruit)
• situation in which a stone or chain of stones may be captured on the next move (in the game of go)
• bite (of a fish on a hook); strike - also written as 魚信 ➜ 魚信

suffix:

• per; each

noun:

• type of long chopsticks used in the preparation of fish; type of long chopsticks used to hold the fish in carving knife ceremony

noun:

• college of the arts; university of the arts; art university

noun:

• college of the arts; university of the arts; art university - abbreviation

noun:

• sound of the autumn wind; sound of the fall wind

noun:

• Orders of the Precious Crown; Orders of the Sacred Crown

noun:

• Records of the Three Kingdoms; Annals of the Three Kingdoms ➜ 三国【さんごく】

noun:

• end of the fiscal year; end of the school year

noun:

• phalanx (phalange) of the hand
• phalanx (phalange) of the foot ➜ 趾骨