noun:

• seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table; head

noun:

• prostitution of learning; twisting the truth and truckling to the times - four character idiom

noun:

• raising or keeping an animal by oneself

noun:

• chain of yarn

noun:

• The Book of Documents; The Book of History; Shujing; Shu Ching ➜ 五経

noun:

• choice of nationality; choice of citizenship

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• slowness of speech; awkwardness of speech

noun / ~の noun:

• rounding of the lips; rounded (e.g. vowel) - Linguistics term

noun:

• additional information used to identify an address (e.g. building name, room number)

noun:

• concocting an alibi

noun:

• concentration of mind; mental concentration (on some task) - four character idiom

noun:

• opening of the beachgoing season

noun:

• captain of the guard

noun:

• integrated set of schools that offers education from one stage to the next without taking entrance exams en route

noun:

• Book of the Dead (ancient Egypt)

noun:

• poetry of the Tang period; Tang poetry

noun:

• 53rd of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• Bank of Japan Act - Law term

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• which can exist solely due to the presence of; whose existence is determined entirely by; which owes everything to - emphatic version of あっての ➜ あっての・こそ

noun:

• prostitute in a brothel disguised as an archery range - archaism ➜ 矢場【やば】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to think of something bizarre; to suddenly have a whacky idea

noun:

• shoji with an oil-treated screen (for increased water resistance) ➜ 障子

noun:

• returning of a package to depot after a failed delivery attempt

noun:

• the favor (favour) of one's master

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇鍋