noun:

• paulownia crest (three leaves with seven blossoms on the center lead and five blossoms on each side leaf)

noun:

• method of Buddhist study and practice that is based in meditative concentration; meditative methods used in Zen Buddhism - Buddhism term

adverb / ~の noun:

• close by; right there; short distance away; a hop, skip and jump away
• at once; as soon as possible; immediately

noun:

• doing something together; co-owning something and using it together - archaism
• being on par with one another - archaism

noun:

• 1955 System; Japanese political alignment with the LDP in government and the JSP in opposition, which lasted until 1993 ➜ 自由民主党【じゆうみんしゅとう】・日本社会党【にっぽんしゃかいとう】

noun:

• coming of age ceremony where boys get a new loincloth and girls a new underskirt

noun:

• teyo-dawa speech; mid-Meiji period schoolgirl slang in which sentence-end particles "teyo" and "dawa" were used prominently

noun:

• flood plain; river terrace; riverside area; area between river and river bank

noun:

• lei (garland of flowers) - From Hawaiian
• lei (plural of leu; currency of Rumania and Moldova) - From or ➜ レウ

noun:

• joint surety; surety jointly and severally liable; co-maker; co-endorser; co-signer - Law term

noun:

• imperial coronation crown
• celestial crown; crown worn by Buddha and celestial beings

noun:

• Committee on Rules and Administration (Diet); House Steering Committee; Standing Committee for House Management ➜ 議運

noun:

• smoke of powder and hail of bullets; (in) the thick of the raging battle - four character idiom

noun:

• the seven treasures and many other precious things; all the treasures in the world - four character idiom

noun:

• Committee on Rules and Administration (Diet); House Steering Committee; Standing Committee for House Management - abbreviation ➜ 議院運営委員会

noun:

• humble and honorific expressions; polite speech - Linguistics term ➜ 謙譲語【けんじょうご】・敬語【けいご】
• honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language - Linguistics term ➜ 敬語【けいご】

noun:

• three mountains
• three shrines (of Kumano)
• three kingdoms (of 14th- and 15th-century Okinawa)

noun:

• standard datum of geographic coordinates; point of origin of longitude and latitude; geodetic datum

noun:

• cannot allow (oneself) to live (with someone) under the canopy of heaven; cannot allow (the sworn enemy) to live in this world; irreconcilable (enemy) - four character idiom

noun:

• tool for scrubbing wood to give it texture, traditionally made of dried grass bound together by hemp cord
• scrubbing wood to give it texture

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

expression:

• in evil, there is odds; there is more evil than good in this world; one good thing tends to cause many bad things to happen - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• buying books and not reading them; stockpiling books

noun:

• books bought but not read

conjunction:

• and then; besides; on top of that
• in that case; that being the case; if so

noun:

• conjugative suffix (i.e. "-iru" and "-eru" for ichidan verbs, "-i" for i-adjectives, etc.)