expression:

• striving to adopt ascetic practices for one's whole life - Buddhism term

noun:

• palace room for government officials or ladies in waiting
• room inside a palace or private estate allocated to employees; person living in such a room
• boarding house for trainee administrators (Ritsuryo period) ➜ 大学寮

noun:

• kanji devised in Japan

noun:

• interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace ➜ 寝殿造り

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

noun:

• government housing for officials

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be cut out for (e.g. a job); to be suited (to)

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard) - abbreviation ➜ 金鍔焼き
• metal sword guard; polearm - archaism

noun:

• period of time in which to recharge one's batteries

noun / ~する noun:

• enrolment of a child in a kindergarten

noun:

• edict from a senior official in government or military which had the status of a binding official document

adverb:

• for many days; for several days ➜ 何日

noun:

• teach-in

noun:

• December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform

godan ~す verb:

• to draw for a specific purpose; to draw for the occasion

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

noun:

• drunken elephant piece, used in some variants of shogi

noun:

• matter for congratulation (wedding, pregnancy, birth, etc.); happy event

noun:

• waves in narrow straits - archaism

expression:

• people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season); it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of - obscure term

ichidan verb:

• to come for the first time; to become for the first time

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have the game in one's hands; to hold the key to victory

noun:

• writing or drawing in ink

noun:

• progressive increase in rent

noun:

• votive objects for a home shrine; ritual article - Shintō term