noun:

• Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang) ➜ 中国国民党

expression:

• wearing light clothes for the sake of fashion

expression:

• This is the point we need to think about - idiom

expression:

• no heat or cold lasts over the equinox - proverb

expression:

• an idle brain is the devil's shop - proverb

noun:

• cold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be drenched (from the rain, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• Queen Mother of the West (an ancient Chinese goddess)

noun:

• special tile that doubles the score of any hand - Mahjong term

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (tea ceremony) ➜ 後炭

noun:

• first adding of charcoal to the fire (tea ceremony)

noun:

• rest for the lid of a teakettle (tea ceremony)

noun / ~の noun:

• under-the-table

noun:

• fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (disease of the connective tissue); FOP

adverb:

• (after) bouncing around from one place to the next

noun:

• iron arrow-head (from the Yayoi and Kofun periods)

noun:

• parajika (rules entailing expulsion from the sangha for life) - Buddhism term

noun:

• circular stone or jasper ornament from the Kofun era

expression / adverb:

• anywhere; here and there

expression / ~の noun:

• common; run-of-the-mill; ordinary

noun:

• charging the goalkeeper (soccer foul) - Sports term - From English "keeper charge"

noun:

• story; tale
• unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting ➜ 平曲

noun:

• style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period - abbreviation ➜ 幸若舞

noun:

• hairstyle with the bangs cut completely straight

noun:

• one's chance; the right time; target; objective

noun:

• remote countryside; boondocks; the sticks ➜ ど